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.  THE  NEW  YORK 
Genealogical  and  Biographical 


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Devoted   to  the   Interests  of  American 
Genealogy  and  Biography. 


ISSUED      QUARTERLY. 


VOLUME  XVII.,  1886. 


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PUBLISHED  FOR  THE  SOCIETY, 

MOTT    Memorial    Hall,   No.    64    Madison    Avenue, 

New  York  City. 


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PUBLICATION     COMMITTEE. 


Gen.  JAS.  GRANT  WILSON,      Dr.  SAMUEL  S.  PURPLE, 
Dr.  henry  R.  stiles,  CHARLES  B.  MOORE,  Esq. 


EDITORS. 


January  and  April, 
Gen.  Jas.  Grant  Wilson. 


Jtdy  and  October, 
Henry  R.  Stiles,  M.D. 


INDEX  TO   SUBJECTS. 


Address,  by  Gen.  J.  Grant  Wilson,  78. 

Admiral  Sir  Isaac  Coffin,  Bart.,  by  Hon.  Thomas  Coffin  Amory  {with  Portrait)^  i. 

Ancient  New  York  Tombstones,  by  Gen.  Jas.  Grant  Wilson,  39. 

Arms  and  Seals  of  New  York,  The  :  a  Defence,  by  Henry  A.  Homes,  48. 

Books.      See  Notes  on  Books. 

Books  donated  to  the  Society,  60,  1 12,  237,  282. 

Brookhaven  (L.  I.)  Epitaphs,  by  William  Kelby,  259,  260. 

Crosby,  Ernest  H.     The  Rutgers  Family  of  New  York,  82. 

Delafield,  the  Englishman,  John,  by  Rev.  Wm.  Hall  {with  Engraving),  245-251. 

Descendants  of  Robert  and  Anne  Drummond,  by  Rev.  Wm.  Hall,  35. 

Donations  to  Library.      See  Books  Donated  to  the  Society. 

Drummond,  Some  Descendants  of  Robert  and  Anne.      See  Descendants. 

D wight  Family  in  Early  English  History,  Traces  of,  by  Benj.  W.  D wight,  D.D.,  23. 

Dwight,  Rev.  Benj.  W.     See  above. 

De  Witt  Family,  The,  of  Ulster  County,  N.  Y.,  by  Thomas  G.  Evans,  251-259. 

Drowne,  Henry  Thayer,  by  Henry  R.  Stiles,  M.D.  {with  Portrait),  215. 

Early  Settlers  of  Ulster  County,  N.  Y.,  by  G.   H.  Van  Wagenen,  261-267. 
Evans,  Thomas  G.     The  De  Witt  Family  of  Ulster  County,  N.  Y.,  251-259. 

Fac-Simile  of  Handwriting  of  Colonel  Beverley  Robinson,  276. 
Four  Primes,  by  Edward  I.  Stevenson  (with  Portrait)^  197. 

Gardiner's  Island,  The  Lordship  and  Manor  of,  by  John  Lyon  Gardiner,  32, 

Gardiner,  John  Lyon.     See  above. 

Genealogical  History,  by  Dr.  Von  H.  Schramm,  37. 

Hall,  Rev,  William.     Some  Descendants  of  Robert  and  Anne  Drummond,  35. 

"         '«  "  John  Delafield,  the  Englishman,  245-251. 

Hough,  Franklin  B.,  Memorial  Sketch  of,  by  Henry  R.  Stiles,  M.D.  {with  Portrait),  93. 

Kelby,  William.     Brookhaven  (L.  I.)  Epitaphs,  259. 

Marsiglia,  Gerlando,  Biographical  Sketch  of,  222. 

Memorial  Sketch  of  Franklin  B.  Hough,  M.D.,  by  Dr.  Henry  R.  Stiles,  93. 

Notes  on  Books.— Family  Memorials,  by  Prof.  Ed.  E.  Salisbury,  55  ;  Personal  Memoirs 
of  Gen.  U.  S.  Grant,  56  ;  Bryant  and  his  Friends,  56  ;  Century  Magazine,  56  ; 
Colonial  New  York,  Philip  Schuyler  and  his  Family,  by  George  W.  Schuyler,  57; 
Charles  Darwin,  by  Grant  Allen,  57;  Records  of  the  Descendants  of  Nathaniel 
Ely,  by  Heman  Ely  ;  Dictionary  of  National  Biography,  edited  by  Leslie  Stephen, 
112;  Memoir  of  Rt.  Rev.  James  Henry  Otey,  D.D.,  etc.,  by  Robert  Greene; 
Genealogical  Memoranda;  Snively ;  Marlborough,  by  Saintsbury,  113  ;  The  Wil- 
derness Road,  by  Thos.  Speed;   The  Forum,   114;    Centennial   History  of  the 


iv  Index  to  Stibjects. 

Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  America,  238  ;  Life  and  Letters  of  Joel  Barlow, 
239;  Life  of  Henry  W.  Longfellow,  239;  Prajterita,  239;  History  of  Kings 
County,  N.  Y.,  240;  Storrs  Genealogy,  240;  Life  of  Admiral  Sir  Isaac  Coffin, 
242  ;  Personal  Memoirs  of  U.  S.  Grant,  242  ;  Burns'  Complete  Works,  242;  The 
Bartow  Family  in  England,  Rachel  Du  Mont,  280;  Lee  Genealogy,  Appleton's 
Cyclopaedia  of  American  Biography,  281. 
Notes  and  Queries. — Blauvelt  and  Van  Antwerp  Families,  55  ;  Vandalism,  55  ;  Pike 
Family  Genealogy,  55  ;  East  Haddam  Folks'  Record,  55  ;  Record  Index,  55  ; 
Hannum  Genealogy,  55  ;  Marseilles  Arms,  55  ;  Proceedings  of  the  Society,  Mott 
Family  of  New  York,  The  American  Historical  Association,  109  ;  The  Duyckincks, 
A  Chinese  Vanderbilt,  Sears  and  Smith,  Drummond  Family,  no;  Schuyler  Fam- 
ily, Columbus  Statue,  Family  Memorials,  An  Ancient  Journal,  Election  of 
Officers,  Careless  Printers,  Continental  Soldiers,  Longevity,  in  ;  No  Ancestors, 
Conant,  Corson,  Hoogland,  Boardman,  112  ;  Elwes  Pedigree,  Vannuxum,  Drum- 
mond of  Prestonpans,  Natural  Heirship,  An  Old-Time  Real  Estate  Agent, 
Southampton,  L.  L,  Balch,  Cleveland,  Dorr,  Unclaimed  Fortunes  in  Holland, 
May — Lyons — Butler,  Raymond,  Somerdyke,  Seelye,  Livingston,  Marseilles,  242  ; 
Culloden,  Weeks,  Thompson,  Cannone,  Southold,  L.  I.,  Connecticut  Light 
Horse,  Riley — Egg  Harbor,  Some  Curious  Epitaphs,  279  ;  Lawrence,  Notes  on  the 
Lounsbury  Family,  Young — Rogers,  280. 

Obituaries.— Grant,  57;  Odell,  57;  Pierrepont,  58;  Van  Buren,  58;    King,  Leveridge, 
115  ;  Rodgers,  116;  Dey,  242;   Robertson,  244. 

Presbyterian  Churches  in  New  York  City.     See  Records. 
Primes,  The  Four,  by  Ed.  I.  Stevenson,  197. 
Pruyn  Family.  The,  by  John  V.  L.  Pruyn,  208. 
Pruyn,  John  V.  L.     See  above. 

Records  of  the  Society  of  Friends,  Westbury,  L.  I.  (continued),  218. 

Records  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  in  the  City  of  New  York — Baptisms,  40,  lOl, 

224,  268. 
Records  of  the  First  and  Second  Presbyterian  Churches  in  the  City  of  New  York — Births 

and  Baptisms,  50,  232,  277. 
Reformed  Dutch  Church  in  the  City  of  New  York.     See  Records. 
Rutgers  Family  of  New  York,  The,  by  Ernest  H.  Crosby  {with  Portrait),  82. 
Robinson,  Colonel  Beverley,  Fac-simile  of  Handwriting,  276. 

Schramm.  Dr.  Von  H.,  Genealogical  History,  37. 
Society  of  Friends,  Westbury,  L.  I.,  Records  of  (continued),  218. 
Stevenson,  Edward  I.      Four  Primes,  197. 

Stiles,  Henry  R.     Memorial  Sketch  of  Dr.  Franklin  B.  Hough,  93. 
"  "  "  Henry  Thayer  Drowne,  215. 

Vanderbilt,  Cornelius  and  William  H.,  by  Wm.  H.  Bogart  {with  Portraits').^  61. 
Van  Wagenen,  Gerrit  H.     Early  Settlers  of  Ulster  County,  N.  Y.,  261. 
Von  H.  Schramm.     Genealogical  History,  37. 

Wilson,  Gen.  J.  Grant.     Ancient  New  York  Tombstones,  39. 
'*  "  Address  {with  Portrait).,  78. 


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THE   NEW   YORK 


Vol.  XVII.  NEW  YORK,  JANUARY,   1886.  No. 


ADMIRAL    SIR    ISAAC    COFFIN,    BART. 

An  Address  delivered  before  the   New  York  Genealogical  and 
Biographical  Society,  October  8,  1885. 


By  Thomas  C.  Amory. 


(With  Portrait.) 


The  name  of  Coffin  is  so  widely  spread  over  our  continent,  so  many 
thousands  of  men  and  women  of  other  patronymics  take  pride  in  their  de- 
scent from  Tristram,  its  first  American  patriarch,  that  what  concerns  them 
all,  any  considerable  branch  or  distinguished  individual  of  the  race,  seems 
rather  history  than  biography. 

Space  forbids  my  repeating  here,  as  I  well  might  wish,  all  that  has  been 
recorded  of  their  history.  It  would  fill  volumes  and  exhaust  your  patience. 
What  sheds  light  on  Sir  Isaac  and  his  immediate  progenitors  is  too  ger- 
mane to  my  subject  to  be  wholly  overlooked.  To  trace  back  Tristram  to 
Alwington,  follow  his  fortunes  from  Plympton  in  old  England  to  the  Mer- 
rimack in  the  new,  bring  his  chequered  career  to  its  honored  close  at  Nan- 
tucket ;  to  pay  due  homage  to  his  son  James,  the  upright  judge  ;  to  his  son 
Nathaniel,  the  dauntless  master  mariner,  and  his  wife,  Damaris  Gayer, 
the  eloquent  preacher  ;  to  their  son  William,  the  much-loved  merchant  of 
Boston,  senior  warden  of  Trinity ;  to  his  son,  another  Nathaniel,  graduate 
of  Harvard  and  Yale,  King's  treasurer,  and  father  of  Sir  Isaac — six  gene- 
rations with  Tristram  of  admirable  men,  with  much  to  praise  and  little 
to  censure,  is  our  legitimate  purpose,  so  far  as  our  limits  prescribed  will 
permit,  before  proceeding  to  our  more  immediate  subject. 

Though  unlike  in  character,  and  of  very  different  experiences  from  his 
ancestors.  Sir  Isaac  was  too  remarkable  a  man  to  pass  into  oblivion.  His 
long  life,  commencing  in  1759  ^^  Boston,  and  ending  eighty  years  later  in 
Cheltenham,  England,  was  crowded  with  events,  many  of  historic  impor- 
tance. By  his  native  vigor,'  doughty  deeds,  and  eminent  services  he  rose 
to  distinguished  rank  in  the  British  navy,  became  captain  of  a  line-of-battle 
ship  at  the  age  of  twenty-two,  and  was  created  a  baronet  at  the  age  of  forty- 
four.  This  not  from  large  means,  family  influence,  or  court  favor,  but  that 
his  character  and  conduct  afloat  and  ashore  entitled  him  to  such  prefer- 
ment.    Throngs  of  heroic  officers  won  glory  in  the  same  wars  that  he  did, 


2  Admiral  Sir  Isaac  Coffiji,  Bart.  [Jan., 

• 

attracted  attention  by  more  conspicuous  achievements  ;  but  his  fearless 
daring,  zeal,  and  ability,  and  what  he  accomplished,  inscribes  his  memory 
high  up  on  the  roll  of  honor,  if  not  on  the  scroll  of  fame. 

How  far  life  and  character  are  molded  by  circumstances,  how  far  by 
heredity,  is  a  complicated  problem,  and  the  horoscope  is  too  largely  affected 
by  maternal  influences  for  these  to  be  disregarded.  Though  bearing  all  the 
marks  of  his  paternal  stock,  Sir  Isaac  doubtless  owed  something  to  the 
blood  mingling  in  his  veins  from  other  sources,  and  it  has  been  my  endeavor 
to  discover  these  infusions  where  I  could,  and,  in  one  instance,  should  be 
preserved  for  the  criticism  of  coming  genealogists — a  supposed  link  that 
may  be  of  use. 

Nicholas,  father  of  Peter  and  grandfather  of  Tristram,  has  been  re- 
garded as  their  most  remote  paternal  ancestor  ascertained.  According  to 
tradition  their  line  was  an  offshoot  of  Alwington,  but  how,  continued  a 
puzzle.  Many  years  ago  I  bought  an  old  edition  of  Collins,  1758,  and  while 
seeking  some  other  information,  my  eyes  fell  on  the  name  of  Peter  Coffin, 
who  about  1560  married  Mary,  fourth  daughter  of  Hugh  Boscawen.  Hugh 
died  1559,  at  the  age  of  eighty.  As  the  homes  of  the  Boscawens,  Tre- 
gothnan  and  Penkeville  lay  near  Brixton,  the  home  of  Tristram,  this 
awakened  curiosity,  the  more  that  Peter's  name  was  not  in  the  index,  and 
might  have  escaped  the  notice  of  previous  genealogical  inquirers. 

Hugh  Boscawen,  of  one  of  the  most  affluent  and  influential  families  of 
Cornwall,  married  Phillippa  Carminow,  of  large  possessions  and  royal  de- 
scent, inheriting,  through  Philip  Courtenay,  the  unfortunate  Marquis  of  Ex- 
eter, Plympton,  and  other  estates  near  Plymouth,  part  of  which  we  find  the 
inheritance  of  Tristram.  Hugh  had  seven  sons  and  seven  daughters.  The 
third  son,  Nicholas,  eighty-six  when  he  died  in  1626,  was  the  successor  of 
his  parents  in  their  estates.  His  sister  Mary,  who  married  Peter  Coffin,  must 
have  been  born  about  1545,  as  there  were  nine  younger  children  than  her- 
self born  before  1559,  when  her  father  died  at  the  age  of  eighty.  Her 
brass  at  Penkeville  gives  her  death  in  1622.  Her  age  is  not  very  clearly 
stated,  but  apparently  as  seventy-seven.  Her  son  Nicholas,  if  grandfather 
of  Tristram,  would  have  been  of  an  age,  in  1582,  to  have  been  father  of 
Peter,  who  died  1628,  and  whose  wife  Joanna,  mother  of  Tristram,  died  in 
Boston  1 66 1,  aged  seventy-seven,  having  been  born  in  1584. 

If  thus,  or  in  any  other  way,  connected  with  the  Coffins,  the  house  of 
Tregothnan  is  too  historical,  and  associated  with  too  many  important  events 
in  our  colonial  annals,  not  to  make  it  worthy  of  note.  Lord  Falmouth, 
under  Queen  Anne,  Edward,  the  commander  of  the  British  fleet  in  the  sec- 
ond reduction  of  Louisbourg,  in  more  recent  days,  have  added  to  the  lustre 
of  a  name  prolific  in  naval  heroes  and  eminent  statesmen.  The  importance 
attached  to  this  supposed  connection  is  that  it  affords  clues  to  ascertain  the 
relation  of  Tristram  to  Alwington,  and  as  Petronel,  the  sister  of  Mrs.  Peter 
Coffin,  married  Peter  Mayhowe,  a  possible  explanation  how  Thomas  May- 
hew  and  Tristram  Cofifin  here  together  planted  Nantucket.  Tuckett's 
Devon  Visitations,  full  as  to  the  main  male  line  of  Alwington,  are  being 
carried  back,  extended  out,  and  brought  down  by  Colonel  Vivyan,  who  is 
approaching  the  Coffins.  My  suggestions  may  help  his  researches,  and 
they  are  given  for  what  they  are  worth. 

But  who  was  the  father  of  Peter  Coffin,  who  married  Mary  Bos- 
cawen ?  He  must  have  been  born  about  1500.  If  among  the  recorded 
members  of  the  family  are  found  individuals  whose  dates  and  other  known 


1 886.]  Admiral  Sir  Isaac  Coffin,  Bart.  3 

circumstances  are  inconsistent  with  the  parentage  of  Peter,  that  reduces  the 
field  of  investigation.  Sceptical  minds  reject  hypothesis  in  such  researches, 
but  often  hypothesis,  fairly  tested,  is  the  only  path  to  the  truth.  At  Monk- 
ley,  about  ten  miles  east  from  Portlege,  one  of  the  homes  of  its  junior 
branches,  dwelt  at  that  time  James,  son  of  Richard  and  Miss  Chudleigh, 
whose  brother  John  married  Mary  Gary.  His  wife,  Mary  Cole,  was  the  near 
kinswoman  of  William,  who  married  Radigan,  daughter  of  Nicholas  Bos- 
cawen.  Tristram  named  his  sons  after  his  ancestors.  James  was  his  fourth 
>6on.  These  circumstances  amount  to  nothing  as  proof,  but  may  lead  to  it, 
or  perhaps  confirm  the  conclusion  of  Mr.  Allen  Coffin,  that  the  connection 
with  Alwington,  if  any,  is  much  more  remote. 

But  why  seek  to  trace  Tristram's  lineage  to  Alwington  ?  The  beauty 
of  the  place,  the  character  of  its  long  line  of  proprietors  through  seven 
hundred  years — one  of  the  very  few  instances,  even  in  England,  in  which  an 
estate  has  remained  for  so  great  a  length  of  time  in  the  same  family — which 
has  never  been  sold,  sequestered,  or  confiscated,  or  passed  except  by  in- 
heritance, will,  or  family  settlement,  which  has  continued  not  only  their 
chief  but  constant  habitation,  suggests  a  home  so  enduring,  qualities  so 
sterling,  that  in  a  world  changeable  as  this,  it  is  solacing  to  every  conserva- 
tive element  in  our  nature  to  believe  we  too  belong  to  it. 

Alwington  extends  along  the  Severn  Sea,  south  of  the  boundary  between 
Somerset  and  Devon,  fronting  the  broad  Atlantic.  The  mighty  billows  roll 
in  majestic  force  against  its  cliffs  and  crags.  The  domain  tiow  embraces 
thirty-eight  hundred  acres,  part  in  fertile  farms  with  substantial  steadings ; 
part  in  park  and  pleasure  grounds,  studded  with  forest  trees  in  clumps  and 
woods.  Its  area  may  have  expanded  in  prosperous  days,  or  been  shorn 
down  to  provide  for  junior  branches  ;  but  its  grounds  are  substantially  the 
same  now  as  under  the  Plantagenets,  or  when  it  first  came  to  the  Coffins 
with  the  heiress  of  the  Delaberes. 

When  we  call  to  mind  what  this  beautiful  region  embraces  from  the 
Severn  Sea  to  its  southern  shores,  Exmoor  and  Dartmoor,  which  Black- 
more  and  Kingsley  have  so  brilliantly  described,  its  romantic  streams  and 
majestic  hills  (and  who  has  not  read  "  Lorna  Doon  "),  with  their  wild  sub- 
limity, we  can  well  consider  it  a  privilege  that  such  associations  cluster 
about  our  own  ancestral  memories,  that  the  Coffins  and  so  many  Americans 
from  Devon  have  such  good  reason  to  be  proud  of  their  mother-country, 
feel  deeper  interest  in  their  progenitors  that  they  dwelt  amid  scenes  so 
picturesque.  Our  kinswoman,  Mrs.  Johnson,  will  pardon  me  if  I  draw 
in  part  from  her  own  eloquent  account  of  Portlege,  what  will  convey  a 
more  perfect  idea  of  the  place. 

The  approach  from  Bideford  in  Somersetshire  south  to  Portlege  (the 
manor  house  of  Alwington)  extends  for  four  miles  along  a  shaded  road,  lined 
on  either  side  with  luxuriant  hedges,  brambled  vines,  and  grasses.  Half  a 
mile  from  the  house  the  road  reaches  the  great  gateway,  which  opens  on 
grounds  tastefully  disposed  ;  for  time  and  taste  and  means  eff'ect  marvels 
about  the  old  homes  of  England.  Lawns  and  gardens  in  a  fine  state  of 
cultivation  spread  around,  with  that  depth  of  verdure  and  coloring  peculiar 
to  the  proximity  to  the  sea ;  for  in  Devon  the  grape  and  peach,  if  protected,, 
ripen  beside  the  pear  and  plum. 

The  house  sets  low  for  shelter  from  the  blasts,  and  is  not  conspicuous  untill 
closely  approached.  The  spirit  of  repose  that  it  breathes,  of  the  times  that: 
have  passed,  of  the  various  vicissitudes  of  sorrow  and  enjoyment  that  have- 


4  Admiral  Sir  Isaac  Coffin^  Bart.  [Jan., 

cheered  or  tried  its  generations  (noted  for  their  culture  and  refinement  as 
they  have  come  and  passed  from  infancy  to  age)  cannot  escape  your  at- 
tention in  the  photograph  submitted. 

About  the  same  distance  from  the  house,  along  the  shore,  stretches  a 
beach  looking  out  over  the  Atlantic,  to  which  a  shaded  walk  from  the 
house  winds  among  ferns  and  groves  thick  with  shrubs  and  rich  with  vari- 
ous verdure.  Seats  judiciously  disposed  afford  a  resting  place  for  the 
enjoyment  of  the  view  and  the  breeze.  About  a  mile  away  stands  the  old 
church,  bosked  in  mossy  foliage,  quiet  and  secluded,  no  dwelling  in  sight,* 
venerable  with  age,  if  too  substantial  for  decay.  Its  pews  of  oak,  black 
with  time,  are  richly  carved,  as  often  seen  in  these  ancient  shrines.  Here 
more  than  twenty  generations  have  brought  their  children  in  arms  to  the 
font,  their  dead  for  sepulchre.  Here  their  blooming  maidens,  their  own  or 
their  tenants',  have  come  to  be  joined  in  wedlock.  The  walls  and  floors 
of  the  edifice,  as  the  burial  ground  around  it,  are  crowded  with  slabs  and 
monuments  that  relate,  with  the  same  touching  simplicity,  the  annals  of 
them  all. 

Within  the  walls  of  the  mansion,  which  are  of  stone,  with  coigns  and 
buttresses  and  battlements,  windows  varied  but  harmonious,  is  a  large, 
square  entrance  hall  with  gallery  on  the  level  of  the  second  floor.  This 
and  the  spacious  dining-room  are  lined  with  family  portraits ;  men  and 
women  in  antiquated  garb,  representing  the  blue  eyes  and  characteristic 
features  of  the  race.  Carved  doors  abound  of  stately  dimensions,  and 
ceilings  of  faded  grandeur,  displaying  in  many  colors  the  emblazonments 
and  quarterings  of  the  family  arms  and  of  others  of  the  best,  connected  with 
them  by  marriage.  Many  are  derived  from  royal  and  noble  progenitors — 
Pomeroys,  Beaumonts,  Chudleighs,  Courtenays,  Prideaux,  Carys,  Cheni- 
pernouns,  Cliff"ords,  Bassets,  Damerels,  of  Devon  or  adjacent  counties. 
Imagination  conjures  up  the  throng  of  these  personages,  long  mouldered, 
as  on  festal  occasions  they  gathered  to  the  banquet  or  the  dance,  roamed 
and  wooed  by  the  moonbeams,  shot  arrows  at  the  targe,  let  loose  the  fal- 
con, or  rode  after  the  hounds. 

The  ancient  forms  and  arrangements  of  the  mansion,  modified  to  meet 
as  well  the  requirements  of  modern  taste  and  comfort  as  to  retain  what  is  old 
or  quaint,  combine  to  constitute  Portlege  a  most  agreeable  home  to  dwell 
in.  It  was  once  famous  for  its  precious  and  extensive  library,  its  archives 
rich  with  the  accumulations  of  many  generations.  Sad  to  say,  about  1800, 
in  the  transfer  under  a  settlement  to  another  branch,  the  books  were  mostly 
sold  and  many  documents  dispersed.  There  still  remain  vast  coffers  of 
manuscript  treasures,  which  in  time  must  perish,  but  which  should  before 
too  late  be  arranged,  copied,  translated  into  intelligible  language,  calen- 
dared, catalogued,  and  indexed.  Some  antiquary  of  the  family  may  yet  be 
born  to  the  faith  that  he  can  devote  his  days  to  no  better  field  of  service  to 
posterity  than  such  a  task. 

Before  taking  leave  of  Alwington,  as  Tristram's  progenitors  passed  off 
from  the  ancestral  stem,  an  enumeration  of  the  succeeding  generations 
from  John  and  Mary  Gary  may  be  of  interest.  Their  second  son  wedded 
Grace,  daughter  of  Richard  Berrie,  of  Berrianarbor.  Richard,  the  oldest, 
1569-1617  (forty-eight),  Elizabeth,  1571-1651  (aged  eighty),  daughter  of 
Leonard  Ugbear,  of  Gornwall.  With  the  eight  sons  and  seven  daughters  of 
Richard,  as  they  grew  into  life,  Portlege  must  have  been  gay,  and  as  the 
daughters,  at  least,  followed  in  rapid  succession  to  their  nuptials,  not  even 


i886.J  Admiral  Sir  Isaac  Coffin,  Bart.  r 

what  was  disagreeable  in  the  Stuart  monarchs  or  the  contentions  of  the  land 
could  have  cast  a  shadow  so  remote  from  the  court  and  battle-field.  When 
the  mother  died,  in  165 1,  James,  the  fifth  son  and  last  survivor,  erected  in 
the  church  of  Alwington  a  monument  to  the  memory  of  his  parents,  with 
an  inscription  which  tells  in  rude  rhymes  their  story.  The  eldest  of  the  two 
sons  left  two  daughters,  Jane  and  Elizabeth,  and  the  inheritance  passed  to 
a  second  Richard,  1622-99,  "Without  an  enemy  while  living,  and  univer- 
sally lamented  when  dead."  His  wife  was  Ann  Prideaux,  daughter  of  Ed- 
mund, of  Padstow,  1645-1705,  who  died  at  the  age  of  sixty.  He  was 
much  esteemed,  and  in  1686  was  sheriff  of  Devon  under  James  H. 

The  children  of  the  sheriff  and  Ann  Prideaux  were  Bridget,  John,  Ho- 
nora,  and  Richard.  The  eldest  son  married  Ann  Kellond,  travelled  exten- 
sively over  Europe,  stood  well  for  character  and  scholarship,  but  died  at 
the  age  of  twenty-five  in  1703.  Honora  married  Richard  Bennett;  Dor- 
othy, Richard  Pyne,  from  whom  came  the  Pyne  Coffins.  Richard,  who 
succeeded  his  brother  John  in  1703,  for  seventy-three  years  was  Lord  of 
Alwington,  and  died  there  in  1776  unmarried.  He  settled  the  estates  first 
on  the  Bennetts,  Robert  and  Richard,  who  died  without  children ;  and  the 
reversion  went  to  the  Pynes  descended  from  Honora,  who  took  the  name 
of  Cofiin.  The  present  proprietor,  born  1841,  was  the  grandson  of  Rich- 
ard, great-grandson  of  the  youngest  daughter  of  the  sheriff,  who  died  1699, 
and  Ann  Prideaux,  who  died  1705.  As  Mr.  Pyne  Coffin  has  a  large  fam- 
ily of  fine  healthy  children,  there  seems  no  chance  of  any  of  the  male  line 
of  the  Coffins  ever  succeeding  to  Alwington. 

It  is  believed  the  male  representation  of  the  family  rests  in  some  de- 
scendant of  Peter  Cofifin,  who  about  1565  married  Mary  Boscawen.  A  few 
words  remain  to  be  said  about  them.  Phillippa  Carminow,  mother  of  Mrs. 
Mary  Coffin,  was,  as  already  mentioned,  coheiress  of  that  part  of  the 
Courteney  estates  which  escaped  forfeiture  when  the  Marquis  of  Exeter, 
next  to  the  crown,  was  beheaded.  Plympton,  near  the  home  of  Tristram, 
formed  part  of  the  Courteney  inheritance  which  Phillippa  Carminow  car- 
ried to  Hugh  Boscawen,  of  Tregothnan,  1469-15  5  9,  as  his  wife.  Their 
home  was  at  Penkevil,  not  far  up  the  river  from  Brixton,  and  is  still  the 
home  of  the  Lords  of  Falmouth,  their  representatives.  Evidence  is  found 
in  an  inquis^ition  of  W^illiam  and  Mary,  1558,  of  the  Coffins,  o(  Portlege, 
holding  lands  at  Plympton,  which  may  have  come  through  the  Boscawen' s 
by  this  marriage,  or  perhaps  may  have  led  to  it.  At  Plympton  and  Brixton 
Nicholas,  grandfather  of  Tristram,  and  Peter,  his  father,  resided  ;  and  Tris- 
tram took,  by  the  will  of  his  father,  Peter,  subject  to  his  mother's  life  es- 
tate, these  lands,  or  a  part  of  them,  which  it  would  seem  likely  came  in  this 
way  or  through  the  Hingstons. 

What  motives  induced  Tristram,  in  1642,  to  dispose  of  so  pleasant  an 
abode  and  come  to  America  can  be  conjectured,  but  are  not  positively 
known.  It  has  been  said  that  he  had  been  employed  as  colonel  in  com- 
mand of  the  garrison  at  Plymouth,  but  this  is  not  authenticated,  and  may 
have  referred  to  his  uncle  Tristram ;  but  we  do  know  that  in  its  defence 
his  only  brother  John  had  been  slain.  Tristram  had  married,  at  the  early 
period  customary  in  those  primitive  times,  Dionis  Stevens,  and  had  already 
five  children — Peter,  Tristram,  Elizabeth,  James,  and  John. 

We  know  his  brother  John  was  killed  at  Plymouth,  and  it  may  be 
Tristram  was  in  the  fight.  The  Stuarts  made  sorry  kings,  and  the  resist- 
ance they  provoked  to  their  arbitrary  rule   seems  justified.     But  England 


6  Admiral  Sir  Isaac  Coffin,  Bart.  [Jan., 

was  seething  on  the  verge  of  twenty  years  of  contention,  and  Tristram,  not 
over-fond  of  either  party,  and  imperilled  by  the  part  he  had  taken,  with 
ten  women  and  children   in  his  charge,  may  have  been  glad   to  escape 
persecution  for  them  and  himself  in  America.     Two  of  his  four  sisters 
married  in   Devon.     Two,  Mary  and   Eunice,  with  their  mother,  his  wife, 
and  five  children,  accompanied  him  in  1642,  the  year  King  Charles  placed 
himself  in  open  array  against  the  parliament. 
^'      That  he  came  in  that  of  the  four  vessels — Hector,  Griffin,  Job  Clement, 
C   and  Margaret  Clement,  belonging  to  Captain  Robert  Clement,  that  came 
./  over  in  1642,  which  Captain  Clement  himself  commanded — is  well  authenti- 
cated.    It  is  known  that  after  a  brief  residence  at  Salisbury,  he  moved  up 
the  river  that  year  to  what  is  now  the  next  town,  Haverhill,  to  form  that 
settlement  with  Clement,  on  land  bought  from  the  Sachem  Pasconaway. 

With  this  large  and  dependent  family  of  nine  women  and  children,  Tris- 
tram crossed  the  sea,  disembarking  at  the  mouth  of  the  Merrimac,  where 
they  so  long  made  their  home.  The  births  of  his  other  children  born  in 
America  show  the  different  periods  he  resided  in  Salisbury,  Haverhill,  on 
the  north  of  the  river,  and  at  Newbury,  to  its  south.  We  have  no 
knowledge  of  his  going  far  from  that  neighborhood  during  the  next  sixteen 
years,  till  he  went  to  Nantucket,  though  it  seems  reasonable  to  suppose 
that  he  did  so. 

The  property  they  brought  sufficed  to  support  in  comfort  the  families  of 
his  mother  and  his  own,  and  to  establish  respectably  in  marriage,  as  they 
grew  up,  his  sisters  and  his  sons.  He  first  settled  himself  at  Salisbury,  in 
the  three-mile  space  between  the  Merrimac  and  the  New  Hampshire 
border,  as  fixed  by  the  patent ;  but  removed  that  year  to  Haverhill,  adjoin- 
ing Salisbury  up  the  river,  for  in  1642,  in  November,  his  name  is  attached 
to  an  Indian  deed  there.  There  Mary,  afterward  Mrs.  Starbuck,  was 
born,  and  John  the  first  having  died,  another  took  his  place.  In  1648 
Tristram  removed  to  Newbury,  where  his  youngest  son,  Stephen,  was  added 
to  the  family  group.  After  residing  there  for  several  years,  during  which 
he  was  licensed  to  keep  an  inn  and  a  ferry  over  the  Merrimac,  Tristram 
returned  to  Salisbury,  where  he  became  a  county  magistrate. 

Salisbury  was  close  to  the  border  of  New  Hampshire,  and  his  eldest  son, 
Peter,  a  merchant  and  king's  counsellor  in  Dover,  in  New  Hampshire,  not 
far  removed  from  Salisbury,  married,  about  1657,  Abigail,  daughter  of 
Edward  Starbuck;  and  his  second  son,  Tristram,  in  1653,  Judith,  daughter 
of  Captain  Edmund  Greenleaf,  widow  of  Henry  Somerby.  The  descend- 
ants of  this  marriage  of  Tristram,  Jr.'s,  have  ever  since  occupied  this 
fine  old  mansion  which  Somerby  had  left  her,  or  her  father.  Captain 
Greenleaf,  bestowed. 

Edward  Starbuck  had  come  over  from  Derbyshire  in  1640,  and  estab- 
lished himself  at  Dover.  Elder  of  the  Church  and  Representative,  he 
became  a  Baptist,  and  soon  after  a  Quaker.  Both  he  and  Thomas  Macy 
are  said  to  have  been  among  the  chief  promoters  of  the  settlement  of  Nan- 
tucket.* It  was  no  doubt  often  discussed,  and  perhaps  slowly  brought  about. 
Nantucket,  an  island  fifteen  miles  by  four,  embracing  an  area  of  about 
thirty  thousand  acres,  lay  at  the  southern  extremity  of  what  is  now  Massa- 

*  Fifteen  miles  by  eleven  in  the  widest  part,  and  twenty  miles  south  of  the  peninsular  of  Cape  Cod,  120 
miles  S.S.E.  of  Boston.  Latitude  41°  13' to  41°  23' N.;  longitude  69°  56'  to  70°  13'.  Population,  1820, 
7,266.  In  1824  Sir  Isaac  was  there;  in  1826,  352  vessels  engaged  in  the  fisheries,  2,392  in  the  coasting 
trade  entered  its  port.     This  was  before  the  era  of  steam. 


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chusetts.  It  was  then  part  of  New  York,  and  so  remained  till  1692.  When 
the  project  was  ripe,  and  it  was  concluded  to  purchase,  Tristram,  early  in 
1659,  made  a  voyage  of  inquiry  and  observation  to  the  group  of  islands  off 
the  Massachusetts  coast  with  this  view.  He  first  visited  Martha's  Vine- 
yard, whither  Thomas  Mayhew  (1591-1681-90),  formerly  a  merchant  in 
Southampton  in  England,  had,  in  1647,  removed  from  Watertown  to  preach 
to  and  convert  the  Indians.  The  name  of  his  first  wife,  Martha  Parkurst, 
he  doubtless  gave  to  the  vineyard  where  he  so  long  dwelt  gathering  souls 
from  the  heathen. 

We  are  inclined  to  believe,  though  we  have  no  conclusive  proof,  that 
the  attention  of  Tristram  was  first  called  to  Nantucket  by  Mayhew,  and  the 
question  suggests  itself  whether  it  had  not  been  from  consanguinity  that 
Mayhew  proposed  or  urged  the  settlement.  He  held,  in  1649,  ^  convey- 
ance of  Nantucket,  as  he  did  of  Martha's  Vineyard,  from  Lord  Sterling. 
Born  in  1591,  Petronel  Boscawen,  sister  of  Mary,  may  have  been  his 
mother  or  grandmother.  That  Mary  Boscawen  was  Tristram's  great-grand- 
mother seems  more  than  probable. 

Mayhew  and  Mayhowe  bear  the  same  arms,  and  are  corruptions  or  varia- 
tions of  the  same  name.  If  Thomas  Mayhew,  born  1591,  was  son  or  grand- 
son of  that  Petronel  Boscawen,  sister  of  Mrs.  Peter  Coffin,  who  married 
Peter  Mayhowe,  as  mentioned  in  Collins,  Mayhew  would  have  been  kins- 
man of  Tristram  not  remote.  Whether  this  be  so  or  not,  Thomas  Mayhew, 
having  procured  for  himself  and  son,  in  1641,  from  Lord  Sterling  and  Sir 
Ferinando  Georges,  conveyances  of  both  the  islands,  Martha's  Vineyard 
and  Nantucket,  eighteen  years  later  (July  2,  1659)  conveyed  Nantucket  to 
Tristram  Coffin  and  his  associates,  reserving  about  a  tenth  part  for  himself. 
He  sent  Peter  Folger,  grandfather  of  Benjamin  Franklin,  who  had  come 
with  him  from  Watertown,  and  was  familiar  with  the  Indian  languages,  with* 
Tristram  to  explore.  Tristram,  soon  after  reaching  Nantucket,  purchased 
of  Potinot,  an  Indian  sagamore,  the  island  of  Tuckernuck,  at  its  westerly 
end,  containing  a  thousand  acres. 

Whether  James  Coffin  came  with  his  father,  Tristram,  at  that  time,  or 
later  in  the  fall  with  Thomas  Macy,  Edward  Starbuck,  and  Isaac  Colman, 
after  his  father's  return  to  Salisbury,  is  not  clear,  but  James  remained  through 
the  winter  on  the  island  as  they  did.  May  10,  1660,  the  sachems  of  Nan- 
tucket conveyed  to  the  associates  for  ^,^80  a  large  part  of  the  island,  Peter 
Folger  being  witness. 

Early  in  1660,  Tristram,  with  his  family,  came  to  Nantucket.  Possibly 
some  delay  took  place,  as  regarded  them,  in  providing  habitations.  It  was 
not  long,  however,  before  enough  of  the  settlers  and  their  families  had  ar- 
rived for  their  security  and  to  plant  their  crops.  Besides  Tuckernuck,  the 
Coffins  had  thus  a  quarter  of  the  island,  and  much  more  in  the  sequel  be- 
came theirs.  Tristram  took  the  lead  from  the  first  among  the  settlers,  and 
was  frequently  selected  to  transact  important  pubhc  business.  His  letters 
to  the  colonial  government  of  New  York,  of  which  province  Nantucket 
was  then  a  dependency,  are  preserved  in  the  archives  of  the  department 
at  Albany.  In  the  records  at  Nantucket  is  an  official  oath  of  his,  which 
runs  as  follows  : 

"Whereas  I,  Tristram  Coffin  Senior,  have  received  a  commission  dated 
the  16*  of  September  1677  investing  me  with  power  to  be  Chief  Magis- 
trate on  the  Island  of  Nantucket  and  its  dependencies  for  the  four  years 
ensuing,  under  further  order,  I,  Tristram  Cofliin  aforesaid  do  engage  my- 


8  Admiral  Sir  Isaac  Coffin,  Bart.  [Jan., 

self  under  the  penalty  of  perjury  to  do  justice  in  all  causes  that  come  be- 
fore me  according  to  law,  and  endeavor  to  my  best  understanding,  and 
hereunto  I  have  subscribed —  " 

Tristram  Coffin 
Subscribed  before  Chief  Magistrate, 

his  son  Peter. 
William,  John 
and  Stephen 
being  his  bondsmen. 

In  1 66 1  Tristram  lost  his  mother,  Joana  Thember,  who  died  in  Bos- 
ton at  the  age  (1584-1661)  of  seventy-seven.  His  daughter  Elizabeth, 
born  in  England,  1634,  died  at  the  age  of  forty-four,  the  wife  of  Stephen 
Greenleaf. 

The  very  admirable  Mary  Coffin,  born  at  Haverhill,  in  1644,  married 
soon  after  their  arrival  at  Nantucket,  at  the  age  of  eighteen,  Nathaniel,  son 
of  Edward  Starbuck.  Their  daughter  Mary  was  the  first  European  child  born 
on  the  island.  Tristram  gave  them  two  hundred  acres,  near  half  his  own  al- 
lotment, at  Capaum  Pond,  and  there  they  resided  near  him  about  twenty 
years,  till  his  death.  Of  noble  character  and  disposition,  superior  powers, 
and  extended  influence,  Mary  was  peerless  in  all  the  graces  of  woman- 
hood, and  also  an  eloquent  preacher  among  the  Quakers.  Her  husband  was 
every  way  a  fitting  companion  for  one  so  gifted  and  admirable.  Their 
daily  associations  with  Tristram  and  his  wife,  Dionis,  must  have  been  a 
mutual  advantage  and  solace  to  them.  She  died  in  171 7,  at  the  age  of 
seventy-two,  her  husband  two  years  later,  at  eighty-three. 

It  needs  but  a  glance  at  your  precious  volume  of  the  Coffins,  Ewers, 
Folgers,  and  Gardiners,  to  see  how  rapidly  multiplied  the  races  of  these 
early  settlers,  and  how  few  comparatively  were  the  prolific  possessors  of 
the  earth,  our  then  progenitors.  It  presents  for  study  a  somewhat  unusual 
example  of  intermarriages  on  so  small  a  scale  which  have  not  deteriorated 
the  stock. 

Among  these  was  Edward  Starbuck,  who  died  there,  1690,  at  the  age 
of  eighty-six.  His  son  Nathaniel,  who  married  Mary  Coffin,  sold  his 
brother-in-law,  Peter  Coffin,  his  estate  at  Dover,  to  accompany  his  father. 
With  him  came  his  sister  Dorcas,  who  married  William  Gayer  ;  and  their 
daughter,  Dorcas  Gayer,  in  the  course  of  events  married  their  cousin, 
Jethro  Starbuck ;  and  her  sister,  Damaris  Gayer,  Nathaniel  Coffin,  son  of 
James.  The  brother  of  William  Gayer,  Sir  John,  who  died  17 10,  acquired 
a  large  fortune  in  Bombay,  which  he  divided  among  his  nephew  John,  son 
of  William,  and  among  his  nieces  Damaris  and  Dorcas  and  their  brother 
John,  who  died  in  1637,  in  Kent,  in  England,  after  marrying  his  cousin 
Jane.  Peter  Folger,  in  1663,  moved  to  Nantucket,  and  his  youngest 
daughter,  Abiah,  and  Josiah  Franklin  were  the  parents  of  Benjamin 
Franklin,  Peter  Folger' s  grandchild.  Peter  married  Judith,  daughter  of 
Stephen  Coffin,  and  the  intermarriages  between  the  descendants  of  the 
early  proprietors  of  the  island  soon  made  akin  all  the  inhabitants. 

Among  others  who  came  were  Richard  Gardner,  eldest  son  of  Thomas, 
who,  in  1624,  held  office  under  Conant  at  Cape  Ann  ;  William  Bunker, 
1 650-1 7 1 2,  carried  to  Nantucket  by  his  mother,  Jane  Godfrey,  whose  first 
husband,  George,  was  drowned,  1658,  when  she  married  Richard  Swaine, 
married,  1669,  Mary,  daughter  of  Thomas  Macy ;  Richard  Pinkham, 
of  Dover  ;  Thomas  Coleman,  who  had  come  out  with  Sir  Richard  Salton- 


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stall,  1599-1682,  and  who  left  four  sons  ;  and  John  Sanborne,  of  Hampton, 
by  marriage,  1674,  with  Judith,  daughter  of  the  second  Tristram  Coffin,  be- 
came connected  with  the  island. 

In  such  a  healthy  climate,  surrounded  by  the  ocean,  leading  lives  of 
purity  and  peace,  dauntless  afloat,  industrious  ashore,  the  whole  globe 
with  its  waters  alike  by  their  voyages  made  familiar  to  their  ken,  it  is  no 
marvel  that  their  numbers  multiplied,  or  that  the  young  grew  up  in 
physical  perfection  to  transmit  their  precious  inheritance  of  health  and 
strength  and  comeliness  of  character  and  intellectual  power,  not  only 
throughout  their  favored  island,  but  over  the  country  of  which  it  formed 
so  insignificant  a  part. 

Tristram  lived  out  his  four  years  as  Chief  Magistrate,  and  as  his  term 
reached  its  close,  his  venerable  form  was  borne  from  his  home  near  Capaum 
Pond  to  the  graveyard,  half  a  mile  away  on  the  ridge.  The  actual  sj^ot 
can  no  longer  be  identified.  The  earliest  stone  remaining,  that  of  John 
Gardner,  dates  twenty-five  years  later.  Tradition  points  out  a  depression 
in  the  ground  where  is  said  to  have  stood  Tristram's  dwelling,  another 
where  once  existed  the  Quaker  meeting-house ;  but  all  around  has  been 
long  since  abandoned  for  human  habitations. 

We  can  easily  conjure  up  that  throng  of  noble  men  and  women,  devout 
and  sad,  his  sons  and  daughters,  their  children,  friends,  and  kinsfolk,  who 
accompanied  his  remains  to  their  last  resting-place.  But  Tristram  needs 
no  monument  to  perpetuate  his  memory.  The  thousands  and  tens  of  thou- 
sands who  look  back  with  pride  and  aifection  to  him,  their  honored  progen- 
itor, multiplying  with  their  generations,  will  keep  in  perennial  bloom  the 
fragrance  of  his  active  and  useful  life,  of  his  traits  and  works. 

If  sandy  and  not  very  responsive  to  the  plough,  Nantucket  has  been 
ever  famous  for  its  flocks  and  herds.  Its  most  abundant  harvests  were 
nevertheless  from  the  ocean.  Even  before  Tristram  passed  away,  "  Lost 
at  Sea  "  was  a  frequent  epitaph  for  its  dauntless  mariners.  They  possessed 
many  ships  of  their  own  ;  sailed  many  from  other  places. 

In  his  well-known  burst  of  eloquence  in  Parliament,  Burke,  in  1774, 
pays  just  tribute  : 

"  Look  at  the  manner  in  which  the  New  England  people  carry  on  the 
whale  fishery.  While  we  follow  them  among  the  tumbling  mountains  of 
ice,  and  behold  them  penetrating  into  the  deepest  frozen  recesses  of  Hud- 
son Bay  and  Davis  Strait,  while  we  are  looking  for  them  beneath  the 
Arctic  Circle,  we  hear  that  they  have  pierced  into  the  opposite  region  of 
polar  cold  ;  that  they  are  at  the  antipodes,  and  engaged  under  the  frozen 
serpent  of  the  South.  Falkland  Islands,  which  seem  too  remote  and  too 
romantic  an  object  for  the  grasp  of  national  ambition,  is  but  a  stage  and 
resting-place  for  their  victorious  industry.  Nor  is  the  equinoctial  heat 
more  discouraging  to  them  than  the  accumulated  winter  of  both  the  poles. 
We  learn  that  while  some  of  them  draw  the  line  or  strike  the  harpoon  on 
the  coast  of  Africa,  others  run  the  longitude  and  pursue  their  gigantic  game 
along  the  coast  of  Brazil." 

Their  gigantic  game  has  been  almost  exterminated,  as  the  buffaloes  on 
the  prairie.  Other  ports  have  attracted  their  trade,  and  the  population  is 
now  but  one-half  of  what  it  was  in  its  palmiest  prosperity.  But  its  children 
are  not  degenerate,  though  forced  to  seek  other  fields  for  their  victorious 
industry.  Everywhere  are  to  be  found  accomplished  ship-masters  of  its 
familiar  names.     William  Coffin,  who  first  settled  in  Boston,  as  his  father 


lO  Admiral  Sir  Isaac  Coffin,  Bart. '  [Jan., 

Nathaniel,  who  died  in  Nantucket  (1721)  at  the  age  of  fifty-five,  traversed 
the  sea  in  command  of  vessels.  The  proximity  of  their  ancestral  home  in 
Devon  to  the  shores  may  have  implanted  in  their  blood  tastes  and  aptitudes 
for  maritime  adventure,  which  gained  strength  as  they  found  wider  employ- 
ment on  this  side  the  Atlantic. 

Gardners,  Macys,  Bunkers,  no  less  than  the  Cofiins  ;  this  showed  the 
mettle  of  their  pasture.  Nor  was  the  invigorating  influences  of  its  climate, 
tempered  as  it  was  by  the  Gulf  Stream,  confined  to  its  vikings.  Daughters 
as  well  as  sons  of  Dorcas  and  Damaris  won  eminence  in  their  various  pur- 
suits. No  more  admirable  examples  of  womanhood  than  Mary  Coffin  and 
Dorcas  Starbuck  have  been  transmitted  for  emulation.  The  Quaker  faith, 
tried  by  persecution  among  the  Puritans,  found  elements  congenial  in  the 
pure,  salt  air,  as  in  the  anxieties  and  bereavements  that  attended  life  on  the 
sea.  Nor  did  they  grow  up  in  ignorance.  Refinements  from  civilization 
beyond  the  Atlantic  had  become  their  inheritance  through  many  genera- 
tions. Tristram  Coffin,  Thomas  Mayhew,  John,  his  grandson,  from  the 
Vineyard,  these  mothers  in  Israel  themselves  exhorted  and  pra)'ed.  Their 
simple  trust,  and  the  amiable  disposition  which  these  tenets  fostered, 
fruited  in  generous  deed  and  noble  trait.  We  must  all  remember  within 
our  own  experience  men  and  women,  even  when  separated  by  place  and 
circumstances  from  the  fold,  still  bearing  unmistakable  impress  of  their 
insular  home,  as  also  of  its  creed,  in  the  beauty  of  their  lives  and  well- 
regulated  character. 

In  the  "  Life  "  of  Tristram  by  Mr.  Allen  Coffin,  pubHshed  in  Nan- 
tucket, 1881,  the  year  of  the  jubilee,  in  that  of  Sir  John,  brother  of  Sir 
Isaac,  by  Captain  Henry,  published  simultaneously  in  New  York,  we 
have  much  information  about  the  Coffins  during  the  last  six  or  seven  cen- 
turies, not  repeated  here  for  want  of  space.  In  the  New  England  Register 
and  other  works  and  periodicals,  there  is  much  all  of  us,  who  honor 
the  memory  of  our  Coffin  progenitors,  should  know.  But  my  subject  is 
the  career  of  Sir  Isaac,  and  to  that  I  return. 

My  intention  had  been  to  follow  Tristram  to  Nantucket,  tell  of  the  brave 
men  and  women  that  peopled  that  island,  render  homage  to  his  admirable 
daughter,  Mrs.  Starbuck,  to  Dorcas  and  Damaris  Gayer,  and  to  all  the 
noble  patriarchs  whose  descendants  over  the  land  prove  the  mettle  of  their 
pasture. 

I  had  hoped  to  have  stated  the  old  line  of  Alwington,  of  the  Pine- 
Coffins,  its  present  proprietors,  through  their  exemplary  generations.  But 
I  must  hurry  on  and  confine  my  story  to  Sir  Isaac  and  his  special  branch. 

From  Tristram's  third  son.  James,  came  Sir  Isaac.  James  was  Judge 
of  the  Common  Pleas,  and  for  twelve  years  of  Probate,  and  when  forty 
years  later  he  passed  away,  at  the  age  of  eighty,  he  was  as  generally  loved 
and  respected.  His  wife  Mary,  daughter  of  John  Severance,  one  of  the 
earliest  settlers  (1637)  of  Salisbury,  had  fourteen  children  wedded  with  six 
Gardners,  with  Starbuck,  two  Bunkers,  with  Macy,  Barnard,  Clark,  1721, 
and  Harker.  The  third  son,  Nathaniel,  1666— 172 1,  by  his  wife  Damaris, 
daughter  of  William  Gayer  and  Dorcas  Starbuck,  and  niece  of  Sir  John 
Gayer,  had  four  sons  and  five  daughters.*     William,  the  eldest  son  of  Na- 

*  In  London  there  is  said  still  to  exist  a  chapel  erected  by  Sir  John  Gayer,  Mayor  in  1649,  somewhat  his- 
torical from  the  stand  he  took  in  trying  times.  Sir  John  Gayer,  uncle  of  Mrs.  Nathaniel  Coffin,  left  fifteen 
thousand  pounds  for  the  nurture  and  education  of  students  for  the  ministry  in  London,  but  he  must  be  a 
generation  later  than  the  Mayor.  The  Mayor  was  from  South  Devon.  He  may  have  been  father  of  this 
second  Sir  John,  and  William  the  father  of  Dorcas  and  Damaris,  Mrs.  Coffin,  and  Mrs.  Starbuck,  to  whom 
Sir  John,  of  Bombay,  left  considerable  estates. 


i886.]  Adfniral  Sir  Isaac  Coffin,  Bart.  j  I 

thaniel,  born  in  1691,  in  1722  married  Ann,  daughter  of  Francis  Holmes, 
of  Boston  and  South  Carolina.  This  event  brought  William,  grandfather 
of  Sir  Isaac,  to  Boston,  where  he  dwelt  in  honor  and  affluence  till  1774, 
father  and  grandfather  of  that  memorable  family  among  the  refugee  loyal- 
ists who  took,  some  may  think,  the  wrong  side  in  our  struggle  for  inde- 
pendence. 

When  William  Coffin,  upon  his  marriage  with  Ann  Holmes,  took  up  his 
abode  in  Boston,  the  place  had  become  a  centre  of  trade,  with  nearly 
twenty  thousand  inhabitants.  The  towns  along  the  shore  and  in  the  in- 
terior depended  upon  it  for  garments,  and,  in  part,  often  for  food.  It  was 
already  metropolitan  in  fashion  and  in  enlightenment.  William's  mother, 
Damaris  Gayer,  lived  on  at  Nantucket  till  1764,  reaching  the  great  age 
of  ninety,  universally  beloved.  She  had  derived  a  considerable  estate, 
as  related,  from  her  uncle,  her  father,  and  brother ;  but  she  had  nine  chil- 
dren to  provide  for.  By  his  own  prudence  and  good  sense,  and  from  his 
wife's  inheritance,  William  soon  acquired  a  competence.  He  joined  the 
Episcopal  Church,  and  held  the  position  for  several  years  of  senior 
warden  of  Trinitj'.  His  death  in  1774,  as  the  war  broke  out,  saved  him 
from  witnessing  the  exile  and  wide-spread  confiscation  that  awaited  his 
sons.  He  had  had  thirteen  children  of  his  own,  six  of  them  married,  who 
were  also  prolific.  His  children,  and  children's  children,  counted  up 
about  sixty  when  he  died,  about  the  same  number  as  his  great-grandfather 
Tristram's  at  his  death  a  century  before.  But  of  William's  descendants 
bearing  the  name  of  Coffin,  all  have  died  out  in  Massachusetts,  and  not 
many  remain  in  England,  Canada,  or  South  Carolina. 

Nathaniel,  second  son  of  William  Coffin,  born  in  1727,  graduate  of 
Harvard  College,  1744,  received,  in  1750,  an  honorary  degree  at  Yale. 
Brought  up  a  merchant,  he  was  early  appointed  King's  Cashier  of  the 
Customs,  and  acquired  considerable  property.  His  wife  was  Elizabeth 
Barnes,  whom  he  married  in  1748.  They  resided  near  the  corner  of  Essex 
Street  and  Rainsford  Lane,  in  Boston,  where  John  and  Sir  Isaac  were 
born.  The  tide  of  the  inner  harbor  washed  up  to  the  garden  walls. 
Near  by,  in  front,  stood  the  Liberty  tree,  on  the  main  street,  which 
Nathaniel,  the  oldest  brother  of  Sir  Isaac,  cut  down  in  1774.  John,  born 
1755,  after  winning  great  honors  by  his  courage  and  conduct  on  the  British 
side  in  the  American  Revolution,  in  its  Southern  campaigns  from  1780  to 
the  peace,  died  the  eldest  general  in  the  British  Army  in  1838.  He  had 
three  sons  and  two  daughters,  and  his  descendant,  Captain  Henry  Coffin, 
of  the  British  Navy,  pubHshed,  as  we  have  related,  a  memoir  of  him  in 
1880.  One  other  brother  of  Sir  Isaac,  and  the  youngest,  Jonathan  Perry, 
was  a  barrister  of  repute  in  London.  His  sisters,  Elizabeth  and  Christian, 
died  in  1826,  unmarried. 

Their  sister,  Catherine,  first  married  Richard  Barwell,  of  Stansted,  dis- 
tinguished in  India,  where  three  of  his  sons  held  positions  of  dignity  and 
trust  on  the  bench,  in  the  treasury,  and  on  the  council  board.  Her 
second  husband  was  Edward  Miller  Mundy.  Catherine  Coffin  had  only 
one  child  by  Mr.  Mundy,  Admiral  George,  of  Holly  Bank,  Hants,  whose 
distinguished  career  in  the  naval  service  of  England  in  the  great  war  with 
Napoleon,  was  wise  and  brave,  and  gained  him  great  renown.  Ann 
married  Mr.  Kallbeck. 

Isaac,  the  subject  of  this  memoir,  third  son  of  Nathaniel,  born  in 
Boston  in  1759,  ^.t  eight  years  of  age — in  1766 — entered  the  Boston  Latin 


1 2  Admiral  Sir  Isaac  Coffin,  Bart.  [Jan., 

school.  He  was  a  diligent  student  in  a  class  that  embraced  numerous 
celebrities,  and  when  in  Parliament  he  acknowledged  himself  indebted  to 
the  methods  and  discipline  of  the  Boston  schools  for  his  apt  classical  quo- 
tations, then  a  mode  much  in  vogue  in  that  august  assemblage.  His  rapid 
progress  and  attainments  in  nautical  science,  which  likewise  remain 
recorded,  may  have  been  in  some  measure  due  to  the  mental  training  of 
Master  Lovell  in  other  branches  of  learning. 

His  constitution  was,  however,  too  vigorous,  his  animal  spirits  too 
buoyant  for  scholarship  alone  to  mark  his  schoolboy  days.  He  led  the 
sports  of  the  playground,  and  on  the  fifth  of  November,  the  anniversary 
of  the  gunpowder  plot,  was  more  than  once  selected  as  the  leader  of  the 
burlesque  solemnities  of  the  occasion,  which  were  left  to  the  boys  of  the 
town  for  fitting  commemoration. 

His  paternal  abode,  as  mentioned  near  the  corner  of  what  is  now  Har- 
rison Avenue,  at  the  then  south  end  of  the  town,  was  near  the  Common, 
and  in  the  frequent  battles  with  foot-  or  snowball,  or  with  fisticuffs,  his 
activity  and  strength  made  him  the  champion  of  his  party  of  Southenders, 
as  they  were  called. 

Living  surrounded  by  the  sea,  sailing  on  its  bays  and  harbors,  and 
haunting  its  wharves  and  vessels,  his  love  for  maritime  pursuits  early  devel- 
oped. At  the  age  of  fourteen  he  entered  the  Royal  Navy  under  the  auspices 
of  Rear-Admiral  John  Montague.  By  him  he  was  confided  to  the  care  of 
Lieutenant  William  Hunter,  at  that  period  commanding  the  brig  Gaspee, 
and  who  thus  spoke  of  his  pupil : 

"  Of  all  the  young  men  I  ever  had  the  care  of,  none  answered  my  ex- 
pectations equal  to  Isaac  Coffin.  He  pleased  me  so  much  that  I  took  all 
the  pains  in  my  power  to  make  him  a  good  seaman  ;  and  I  succeeded  to 
the  height  of  my  wishes ;  for  never  did  I  know  a  young  man  acquire  so 
much  nautical  knowledge  in  so  short  a  time.  But  when  he  became  of  use 
to  me,  the  Admiral  thought  proper  to  remove  him.  We  parted  with  con- 
siderable regret." 

Mr.  Coffin,  after  quitting  the  Gaspee,  served  as  midshipman  succes- 
sively on  board  the  Captain,  Kmgfisher,  Fowey,  and  Diligent,  on  the 
Halifax  Station ;  from  the  latter  vessel  he  was  removed  into  the  Romney, 
of  fifty  guns,  bearing  the  flag  of  his  patron  at  Newfoundland,  and  in  the 
summer  of  1778  he  obtained  a  lieutenancy  and  the  command  of  the  Pla- 
centia  cutter.  In  the  following  spring  he  served  as  a  volunteer  on  board 
the  Sybil  frigate,  Captain  Pasley,  and  was  soon  after  appointed  to  the 
command  of  Le  Pincon,  an  armed  ship.  On  this  vessel,  owing  to  the 
negligence  of  the  sailing  master  who  had  charge  of  her,  he  had  the  misfor- 
tune to  be  wrecked  on  the  coast  of  Labrador ;  upon  which  he  returned  to 
St.  John's,  where  he  was  tried  by  a  court  martial  and  fully  acquitted,  his 
conduct  being  considered  that  of  an  able  officer  and  seaman  wholly  free 
from  blame. 

By  following  such  traces  as  the  naval  histories  of  Great  Britain  afford 
of  these  several  ships,  we  can  reasonably  conjecture  the  part  Coffin  took 
in  our  Revolutionary  War.  We  learn  what  duties  were  performed  by  each 
of  them,  and  we  have  no  reason  to  doubt,  from  his  rapid  promotion,  of  his 
efficiency  and  zeal.  We  know  that  his  patron.  Admiral  Montague,  pro- 
tected the  rear  of  Howe's  retreat  from  Boston,  in  1776,  that  the  ships  to 
which  he  belonged  were  often  engaged  with  the  enemy,  and  that  they  cap- 
tured several  valuable  prizes,  in  which  actions  he  participated.     But  inter- 


1 886,]  Admiral  Sir  Isaac  Coffin,  Bart.  1 3 

esting  as  this  view  of  the  war  of  Independence  was  from  the  decks  of 
English  fleets,  little  comparatively  is  familiar  to  American  students  of  their 
history,  or  known  of  Coffin's  own  experiences  to  relate  them  here  as  inci- 
dents in  his  life. 

In  November,  1779,  Coffin,  now  lieutenant,  went  to  England  and  was 
appointed  to  the  Adamant,  about  to  be  launched  at  Liverpool.  In  June, 
1780,  that  ship  sailed  for  Plymouth  under  jury  masts;  and  in  the  month 
of  August  following  she  was  ordered  to  convoy  the  trade  bound  to  New 
York.  His  next  appointment  was  to  the  London,  of  ninety-eight  guns,  the 
flag-ship  of  Rear  Admiral  Graves,  then  second  in  command  on  the  coast 
of  America,  and  from  her  he  removed  into  the  Royal  Oak,  a  third-rate, 
under  Vice-Admiral  Arbuthnot,  to  whom  he  acted  as  signal  lieutenant  in 
the  action  off  Cape  Henry,  March  16,  1781.  As  he  rose  in  rank  and  was 
clothed  with  graver  responsibilities,  the  part  he  took  was  more  conspicu- 
ous, and  we  may  mention,  even  in  connection  with  an  officer  so  young  as 
he  was,  much  of  what  took  place. 

The  events  of  the  first  four  years  of  the  war,  from  1775  to  1779,  are 
sufficiently  familiar;  D'Estaing's  repulse  at  Savannah  and  Prescott's  evac- 
uation of  Newport  in  October,  1779;  its  reoccupation  by  Tiernay  in 
July,  1780.  The  reduction  of  Charleston,  defeat  of  Gates  at  Camden, 
defection  of  Arnold,  capture  at  sea  of  Henry  Laurens,  had  followed  in 
quick  succession.  Congress  sent,  in  December,  1780,  John,  son  of  its 
captured  president,  who  had  gained  glory  in  the  recent  battles,  to  help 
extricate  his  father  from  the  Tower,  and  arrange  with  King  Louis,  Frank- 
lin, and  Vergennes  for  the  coming  campaign.  Britain,  disappointed,  had 
sued  for  peace  by  arbitration,  which  France  was  disposed  to  concede  on 
condition  of  American  independence.  Meanwhile  the  King  urged  his  allies 
to  make  strenuous  exertions  to  better  their  condition,  which  seemed  also 
the  English  policy,  that  they  might  respectively  treat  to  better  advantage. 

Arnold's  sack  of  Virginia,  Cornwallis'  march  to  Yorktown,  manoeuvred 
thither  by  Lafayette,  Wayne,  and  Greene,  were  preparing  the  crisis.  The 
King,  in  March,  '81,  had  promised  millions  of  money,  arms,  and  garments. 
He  provided  for  the  co-operation  of  De  Grasse,  with  a  formidable  fleet 
and  several  thousand  men  from  the  West  Indies,  with  Washington  and 
Rochambeau  in  the  Chesapeake  at  the  end  of  August. 

A  French  squadron  in  March,  1781,  had  a  partial  engagement  at  Cape 
Henry  with  Admiral  Arbuthnot,  under  whom  Coffin,  as  mentioned,  served 
as  signal  lieutenant.  Washington  and  Rochambeau  in  July  passed  round 
New  York,  reaching  the  Chesapeake  as  De  Grasse  with  his  twenty-four  line- 
of-battle  ships  made  his  appearance.  The  English  leaders,  both  on  land 
and  along  shore,  had  been  on  the  watch,  and  Graves,  Hood,  and  Drake, 
with  nineteen  ships,  hovered  near.  Upon  their  arrival,  De  Grasse  stood 
out  to  sea,  the  British  fleet  following.  In  the  engagement  of  the  5th  of 
September  that  ensued,  the  British  lost  a  few  hundred  men  and  De  Grasse 
accomplished  his  object.  De  Barres,  who  had  come  down  from  Newport, 
improved  the  occasion  to  enter  the  bay,  and  the  two  French  fleets  thus 
hermetically  sealed  it  against  the  British.-  Graves  hurried  back  to  Sandy 
Hook  for  reinforcements  ;  but  when  he  returned  with  seven  thousand  men, 
sent  by  Clinton  to  relieve  Cornwallis,  on  the  24th  of  October,  it  was  too 
late,  Cornwallis  had  already  surrendered. 

How  it  ch^ced  that  Coffin  took  no  more  active  part  in  these  oper- 
ations may  be  thus  explained.     After  the  battle  of  March  i6th,  on  the 


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return  to  New  York,  the  Royal  Oak,  after  taking  several  valuable  prizes, 
had  grounded  and  was  sufficiently  injured  to  be  hove  down  at  Halifax.  In 
the  middle  of  June  arrived  a  vessel  from  Bristol  with  the  remains  of  his 
father,  who  had  died  on  board  the  day  before  of  gout.  Having  held  an 
important  position  under  government,  his  obsequies  at  St.  Thomas,  on 
Broadway,  showed  due  regard  to  his  memory.  Isaac  was  placed  soon  after 
in  command  of  the  Avenger,  the  advanced  post  of  the  British  up  the 
North  River,  which  he  held  during  the  autumn,  till  he  exchanged  with 
Sir  Alexander  Cochrane  for  the  Pocahontas  and  joined  Hood  early  in 
January  at  Barbadoes. 

Lord  Hood  had  been  often  in  Boston.  His  wife's  uncle,  Captain  John 
Linzee,  had  there  married  the  daughter  of  Ralph  Inman,  of  Cambridge. 
Lord  Hood  was  present  at  this  marriage,  as  afterward  at  that  in  the  same 
apartment  in  the  house  of  Mr.  John  Rowe  (who  had  also  married  an  Inman), 
of  Linzee's  daughter  Hannah  to  my  namesake  and  father's  brother. 
Under  the  same  roof  William  H,  Prescott,  whose  wife  was  the  daughter 
of  Hannah  Linzee,  wrote  his  earlier  histories.  Hood  well  knew  Coffin, 
and  it  required  very  little  solicitation  on  his  part  to  invite  him  to  serve  on 
board  the  Barfleur,  his  flagship. 

Soon  after  the  surrender  at  Yorktown  Hood  had  sailed  for  Barbadoes, 
awaiting  De  Grasse.  January  14,  1782,  soon  after  Coffin  had  joined  him, 
he  learned  that  De  Grasse  had  relinquished  his  plan  of  attacking  Barbadoes, 
and  gone  to  St.  Kitts,  where  De  Bouille  had  landed  eight  thousand  troops, 
the  British  garrison  under  Frazer  consisting  of  but  six  hundred  men. 

Deciding  to  attack  the  French  fleet  at  anchor  to  save  the  place,  Hood 
embarked  Prescott,  who  had  twice  been  in  command  at  Newport,  with  the 
few  troops  that  could  be  spared  from  Antigua,  and  set  sail.  At  daybreak  he 
signalled  for  battle  ;  but  the  Alfred,  running  foul  of  the  Nymph,  arrested  the 
prosecution  of  the  design,  in  order  to  repair  damages.  De  Grasse  put  to 
sea  to  have  more  room  to  manoeuvre,  and  thus  secure  the  advantage  of 
his  superiority  in  numbers.  At  daylight  on  the  25th,  the  French 
fleet,  twenty-nine  sail  strong,  formed  in  line  of  battle  three  leagues  to 
leeward.  Hood,  who  had  but  twenty-two,  pushed  the  enemy  still  farther 
to  leeward  while  he  took  possession  of  Basse  Terre,  the  position  Hood 
had  left.  The  Count,  astonished  at  these  excellent  operations  which  cut 
him  off  from  his  army,  made  a  furious  onset  on  the  British  rear,  commanded 
by  Affleck,  who,  under  an  incessant  fire,  covered  the  ships  till  they  reached 
their  several  stations. 

The  next  morning  the  French  admiral  attacked  again  the  British,  van 
and  rear,  but  was  repulsed,  losing  a  thousand  men.  His  own  flagship,  the 
Ville  de  Paris,  present  of  that  city  to  the  King,  all  the  next  day  lay  upon 
her  heels  covering  her  shot-holes.  The  siege  proceeded  with  various 
success,  till  De  Bouille  arrived  with  four  thousand  fresh  troops,  when 
Frazer  capitulated.  Hood,  on  the  19th,  reached  Antigua,  and  joined, 
a  few  days  later  Lord  Rodney,  with  reinforcements  from  England. 

These  operations  form  an  epoch  in  the  annals  of  the  British  Navy. 
Compelling  an  enemy  of  a  superior  force  to  quit  his  anchorage,  taking 
himself  the  situation  thus  left  during  action,  defeating  every  attempt  to 
force  the  position,  and  cutting  the  enemy  off  from  his  army.  It  was  a 
lesson  in  naval  tactics  that  will  ever  be  deservedly  regarded  with  admiration, 
both  for  Hood's  skill  in  these  masterly  manoeuvres,  and  for  the  bravery  and 
precision  with  which  they  were  executed  by  those  under  his  orders. 


1 886. J  Admiral  Sir  Isaac  Coffin,  Bart.  jr 

While  at  Santa  Lucia,  Rodney,  learning  that  De  Grasse,  with  5,500 
men  and  heavy  guns,  had  pushed  for  St.  Domingo  to  reduce  it,  overtook 
him  on  April  7th,  and  the  battle  of  the  9th  and  victory  of  the  12th  were 
the  results.  The  battle  on  the  12th  began  at  seven  in  the  morning.  It 
was  fought  in  a  large  basin  of  water  lying  among  the  islands  of  Guadaloupe, 
Dominique,  the  Saints,  and  Marie  Galante.  Both  on  the  windward  and 
leeward  of  this  bay  lay  dangerous  shores.  As  day  broke,  Rodney  closed 
up  his  line  at  one  cable  length  instead  of  at  two,  as  usual,  each  ship  as  she 
ranged  up  to  her  opponent  giving  and  receiving  a  tremendous  fire.  At 
noon,  with  his  own  ship,  the  Formidable,  and  three  more,  he  bore  down 
upon  the  enemy  within  three  ships  of  the  centre  and  broke  through.  His 
other  ships  followed,  doubling  upon  the  enemy  and  placing  them  between 
two  fires.  Rodney  then  wore  and  signalled  the  van  to  tack  ;  they  gained 
the  windward  and  completed  the  disorder  and  confusion  of  the  French. 

The  French  continued  the  combat,  attempting  to  reform  their  broken 
line  by  the  van  breaking  away  to  windward.  Meanwhile  Hood,  in  the 
Barfleur,  earlier  becalmed,  rushed  down  upon  the  foe.  The  Canada,  74, 
took  the  Hector.  Ingrefield  in  the  Centaur  attacked  the  Cesar  ;  the  cap- 
tain nailed  his  colors  to  the  mast  and  was  killed.  When  she  struck  her 
mast  went  overboard,  and  she  had  not  a  foot  of  canvas  without  a  shot-hole. 
The  Glorieux  fought  bravely,  but  was  forced  to  yield.  The  Ardent  was 
retaken,  the  Diadem,  74,  went  down  by  a  single  broadside  attributed  to  the 
Formidable,  Rodney's  flag-ship. 

Between  the  French  ship,  the  Ville  de  Paris,  and  the  Canada,  a  desper- 
ate action  raged  for  two  hours.  De  Grasse  seemed  determined  to  sink 
rather  than  strike.  The  Barfleur,  Hood's  flag-ship,  on  which  was  Coffin, 
at  sunset  poured  in  a  fire  which  killed  sixty  men  outright,  and  De  Grasse 
struck  to  Hood.  It  is  said  that  at  the  time  she  struck  but  three  men  were 
left  alive  and  unhurt  on  the  upper  deck,  and  the  Count  was  one. 

Hood  despatched  in  pursuit  of  the  French  vessels  that  attempted  to 
escape,  overtook  and  captured  four.  The  whole  loss  of  the  French 
amounted  to  eight  vessels,  one  of  which  was  sunk  and  another  blown  up. 
On  the  Ville  de  Paris  were  thirty-six  chests  of  money  to  pay  the  troops.  She 
was  said  to  have  been  at  that  time  the  only  first-rate  ever  carried  into  port 
by  any  commander  of  any  nation.  The  French  lost  3,000  men,  the  British 
1,000.  Rodney  was  made  a  peer  of  Great  Britain,  Hood  of  Ireland,  Drake 
and  Affleck  baronets. 

Shortly  after  the  battle  of  April  12,  1782,  Captain  Coffin,  who  had  re- 
joined his  sloop,  went  with  part  of  the  crew  of  the  Santa  Amonica,  which 
had  been  wrecked  at  Tortola,  to  Jamaica,  where,  through  the  influence  of 
Hood,  he  was  appointed  by  Lord  Rodney  captain  of  the  Shrewsbury,  of  74 
guns,  and  confirmed  in  that  rank  June  13,  1782,  sixty  days  later,  when  only 
twenty-two  years  of  age.  This  indicates  the  estimate  of  both  Hood  and 
Rodney  of  his  ability,  prudence,  and  courage,  of  the  value  of  his  services  in 
these  recent  operations. 

While  still  in  command  of  the  sloop  Pocahontas  at  Antigua,  the  town 
of  St.  Johns  caught  fire  and  in  a  short  space  was  nearly  consumed.  Coffin, 
with  the  crew  of  his  sloop  and  other  sailors  collected  by  his  exertions,  at 
length  succeeded  in  arresting  the  progress  of  the  flames,  at  the  imminent 
risk  of  his  life.  For  this  service  he  had  the  satisfaction  of  receiving  an 
address  of  thanks  from  the  legislative  body  of  the  island. 

The  war  ended,  and  though  he  had  gained  a  permanent  position  in  the 


1 5  Admiral  Sir  Isaac  Coffin,  Bart.  [Jan., 

Navy,  there  was  much  to  discourage  him  in  finding  his  vocation  thus 
changed,  if  not  gone.  His  family  was  broken  up.  The  remains  of  his 
father  lay  in  their  last  resting  place  in  St.  Thomas'  graveyard  in  New  York. 
John,  at  the  age  of  twenty-one,  had  raised  a  mounted  rifle  corps  in  New 
York  called  the  Orange  Rangers,  which,  with  him  as  their  commandant, 
took  part  in  the  battle  of  Long  Island,  August  27,  1776,  and  in  that  of 
Germantown,  October  4,  1777.  Later,  he  exchanged  into  the  New  York 
Volunteers,  was  at  San  Lucie  and  Brier's  Creek  in  1779,  at  Camden  in 
1780,  at  Holkirk's  Hill,  near  Camden,  April  25th,  and  at  Eutaw  Springs 
September  8,  i78r.  He  is  mentioned  as  a  brave  and  successful  cavalry 
officer,  with  commendation  in  nearly  every  other  engagement  of  the  South- 
ern campaign,  constantly  in  desperate  encounters  and  coming  off  victor- 
ious. Though  a  purse  of  ten  thousand  dollars  was  offered  for  his  capture, 
he  escaped  to  Charleston,  where  he  married,  as  the  war  closed.  Miss 
Matthews,  and  establishing  himself  later  on  his  manor  of  Alwington,  on 
the  St.  John's,  in  New  Brunswick,  he  lived  till  he  was  eighty-two  in  great 
honor.  That  at  the  close  of  the  war  of  Independence,  at  the  age  of  twenty- 
seven,  his  rank  was  only  that  of  a  major,  that  he  was  not  promoted  to  a 
higher  rank,  as  urged  by  Howe  and  Cornwallis,  is  attributed  to  enmity  at 
court  for  telling  the  truth  of  a  favorite.  He  was  at  the  head  of  the  gen- 
erals when  he  died. 

As  he  has  had  recently  (1880)  his  biographer  in  one  of  his  descendants, 
Captain  Henry  Coffin,  of  the  Royal  Navy,  this  is  not  the  place  to  relate 
more  particularly  his  brilliant  achievements  or  numberless  anecdotes  well 
remembered.  I  vividly  recall  his  tall  commanding  figure  and  marvellous 
bright  eyes,  in  my  early  home  in  Park  Street,  in  Boston,  where  he  was  a 
frequent  visitor  of  my  father,  who  had  charge  of  his  aff"airs  as  of  his 
brother's.  He  was  more  sedate  than  Isaac,  but  both  were  brilliant  speci- 
mens of  the  race.  He  was  beloved  and  greatly  esteemed  by  his  numerous 
cousins,  and  splendid  salmon  from  the  river  near  his  home  were  often  sent 
by  him  for  their  enjoyment.  He  also,  Hke  his  brother,  if  not  on  so  grand 
a  scale,  in  order  to  promote  our  stock,  sent  fine  horses  to  the  Agricultural 
Society  at  Brighton. 

The  brothers  of  nearly  the  same  age,  and  the  best  of  friends,  Isaac 
may  well  have  wished  to  have  been  present  at  John's  wedding  to  Miss 
Matthews,  that  took  place  toward  the  close  of  1782.  Charleston  lay  on 
the  route  from  Antigua,  and  it  would  not  have  been  strange  if,  in  the  spirit 
of  mutual  consideration  that  prevailed  in  the  service,  such  an  opportunity 
had  been  given  him.     If  so,  it  does  not  appear. 

War  over,  and  the  Shrewsbury  paid  off,  Cofllin  exchanged  into  the  Hy- 
dra, and  going  home,  was  put  out  of  commission.  His  previous  visits  to  Eng- 
land had  been  brief  and  on  professional  duty.  This  new  experience  to 
one  who,  at  the  age  of  twenty-two,  had  gained  the  rank  of  captain,  and 
by  his  valuable  services  made  his  mark  as  one  of  the  best  officers  of  the 
Navy,  might  have  turned  the  head  of  one  less  sensible. 

To  be  his  own  master,  with  abundance  of  prize  money,  plenty  of 
companions  Uke  dashing  blades  to  share  it,  must  have  been  replete  with 
gratification.  Many  of  his  family  and  friends  from  Boston  had  taken  up 
their  abode  in  London,  and  the  refugee  loyahsts  formed  there  a  large  circle. 
They  were  all  disposed  to  like  Isaac,  a  handsome  young  fellow  with  pleas- 
ant ways,  generous  and  unpretending,  loaded  with  laurels.  If  the  highest 
honors  of  the  war  attached  to  superior  rank  and  more  distinguished  com- 


1 886.]  Admiral  Sir  Isaac  Coffin,  Bart.  ly 

mand,  he  had  done  enough  to  be  held  in  estimation   among  his  own  inti- 
mates, by  the  great  naval  celebrities,  and  by  the  public. 

He  was  much  in  France  while  thus  on  furlough.  Paris  still  retained  the 
glamour  of  the  old  regime.  If  heavy  taxes  or  arbitrary  power  created  wide- 
spread discontent  and  disaffection,  there  were  as  yet  few  indications  of 
the  caldron  seething  beneath,  soon  to  overwhelm.  It  is  much  to  be  wished 
more  of  his  correspondence  had  survived  to  give  us  his  own  impressions 
of  Paris  then.  He  wrote  well  and  with  the  vivacity  that  characterized  his 
conversation.  Possibly  many  more  of  his  letters  may  exist  of  all  periods 
of  his  life,  and  if  so,  they  should  be  collected. 

Sir  Guy  Carleton,  who  could  hardly  have  saved  Canada  for  the  crown, 
in  1 7 75,  without  the  aid  of  the  Coffins,  and  whose  private  secretary  through- 
out his  career  was  Isaac's  cousin,  Sir  Thomas  Aston  Coffin,  was  now,  in 
1786,  appointed  Governor  of  Canada.  It  was  ])robably  at  his  request  that 
Isaac  was  appointed  to  the  Thisbe,  to  take  him  with  his  family  and  suite  to 
Quebec,  He  had  been  created  Lord  Dorchester,  that  being  an  old  title 
in  the  Carleton  family.  The  ship  arrived  at  Quebec  late  in  the  season, 
and,  lest  she  should  be  frozen  up.  Coffin  proceeded,  two  days  later,  to 
Halifax  for  the  winter,  returning  in  the  spring  to  Canada,  and  remained 
there  for  some  months. 

At  this  time  a  circumstance  occurred  to  disturb  his  serenity,  though 
later  he  was  entirely  exonerated  from  any  blame.  It  had  been  long  the 
custom  in  the  English  naval  service,  among  other  abuses  working  occa- 
sional injustice  and  demanding  reform,  to  retain  on  the  ship  rolls  the  names 
of  young  officers  while  pursuing  their  studies  ashore ;  so  that  they  might 
not,  while  qualifying  themselves  for  their  responsible  duties,  lose  their  pre- 
cedence for  promotion.  Many  years  before,  in  consequence  of  some  unfair 
advantage  that  had  been  taken  of  this  indulgence,  a  regulation  prohibiting 
such  practices  had  been  adopted  by  the  Admiralty.  It  chanced  at  this  very 
time  someone  again  had  been  aggrieved,  and  attention  been  called  to  the 
prevalence  of  what  had  been  prohibited.  It  was  discovered  that  two  such 
cases  were  on  the  rolls  of  the  Thisbe,  not  placed  there  with  the  knowledge 
of  Coffin,  but  which  it  was  his  duty  as  captain  to  have  discovered  and  struck 
off.  Upon  inquiry  and  complaint  he  was  suspended,  and  indignant  at  what 
he  conceived  unfair  treatment,  he  proceeded  to  Flanders,  and  entered  into 
the  service  of  the  Brabant  patriots  then  in  arms  against  Austria. 

This  decree  of  suspension  by  the  board,  when  appealed  from  to  the 
twelve  judges,  was  by  them  declared  illegal  on  the  part  of  the  Admiralty 
and  set  aside.  This  put  an  end  to  the  suspension  and  restored  him  to  his 
standing  in  the  service.  Upon  the  Spanish  armament  in  1 790,  on  the  Nootka 
Sound  dispute,  he  was  appointed  to  the  Alligator,  and  in  the  following 
spring,  having  received  the  flag  of  Commodore  Cosby,  was  ordered  to 
America,  whence  he  returned  home  with  Lord  Dorchester  and  his  family  the 
following  autumn. 

While  thus  stationed  at  Halifax,  he  visited  Quebec  on  furlough,  and 
remained  there  a  twelvemonth.  He  naturally  found  the  place  attractive 
socially  as  in  other  ways.  Besides  his  cousin,  Thomas  Aston,  son  of  his. 
uncle  William,  his  Uncle  John  resided  in  that  city  with  his  family,  who 
were  about  his  own  age.  John,  early  after  the  outbreak  of  hostilities  at. 
Boston,  had  taken  his  wife,  Isabella  Child,  and  eleven  surviving  of  his- 
tifteen  children,  six  sons  and  five  daughters,  in  his  own  ship,  the  Neptune,. 
to    Quebec.     He    there    purchased   land,    and    when    Montgomery    and, 


1 3  Admiral  Sir  Isaac  Coffin,  Bart.  [Jan., 

Arnold  arrived  in  December,  1775,  to  besiege  the  city,  he  remodelled  the 
buildings  he  was  constructing  for  another  purpose  into  a  fortification.  This 
he  armed  with  guns  from  a  vessel  frozen  in  for  the  winter,  and  with  Barne- 
fare,  its  captain,  stood  ready  with  a  small  force  to  oppose  the  assailants. 
With  the  first  volley  he  slew  Montgomery  and  his  two  aids,  on  the  last  day 
of  the  year  1775,  as  they  attempted  to  take  his  fort  by  assault.  This,  with 
Arnold's  subsequent  loot  of  Montreal,  which  disaffected  the  Canadians, 
saved  Canada  for  the  British  crown. 

The  sons  of  John  all  reached  distinguished  rank  in  the  British  civil  and 
military  service,  and  three  of  his  daughters  were  connected  with  it  by 
marriage.  Isabella  married  Colonel  McMurdo,  whose  sons  gained  dis- 
tinction in  India  ;  Susannah,  Hon.  John  Craigie,  provincial  treasurer,  whose 
son,  an  admiral,  died  in  1872  at  Dawlish  ;  his  daughter  Margaret,  Sir 
Roger  Hailes  Sheaff,  born  in  Boston,  who  for  his  victory  at  Queenstown 
Heights,  October  13,  181 2,  was  made  a  baronet.  One  of  the  sons  of  John, 
Francis  Holmes,  in  the  navy  throughout  the  war  with  France,  served  with 
distinction  and  died  an  admiral  in  1835,  and  his  son,  Sir  Isaac  Tristram, 
ICC,  died  in  1872  at  Black  Heath,  having  won  his  laurels  in  India. 

\Vniile  on  his  way  up  the  river  to  Quebec  in  1786,  the  Thisbe  was  be- 
calmed off  the  Magdalen  Islands  in  the  St.  Lawrence,  and  struck  by  their 
appearance,  perhaps  the  more  attractive  from  the  autumnal  splendors. 
Coffin  requested,  probably  not  in  very  serious  earnest,  that  Lord  Dorchester, 
as  representative  of  the  crown,  would  bestow  them  on  him.  This  request 
seemed  reasonable  to  the  governor.  Jt  was  not  received  at  first  with  favor  at 
home,  but  renewed  the  following  year  in  more  formal  manner,  was  eventu- 
al!)'granted.  The  letters-patent  were  not  expedited  until  1798,  during  the 
governorship  of  Robert  Prescott.  In  his  will  Sir  Isaac  entailed  these  islands 
on  his  nephew,  John  Townsend  Coffin,  and  his  sons,  John's  brother,  Henry 
Edward,  his  cousin  William,  and  several  other  branches  of  his  own  name, 
and  then  on  the  Barwells,  his  sister's  sons. 

After  his  return  to  Europe,  while  lying  at  the  Nore  during  a  heavy  gale, 
a  man  fell  overboard,  and  Coflin  leaped  after  him  into  the  sea  and  succeeded 
in  saving  his  life.  He  sustained  by  his  efforts  a  serious  injury,  which  fre- 
quently afterward  reminded  him  of  this  act  of  humanity. 

Another  heroic  act,  of  somewhat  similar  character,  has  been  related  of 
his  promptness  in  emergencies.  While  at  Portsmouth,  or  some  other 
naval  station,  and,  it  is  believed,  still  a  subaltern,  his  ship,  one  of  the  line, 
caught  fire,  which  being  in  close  proximity  to  the  magazine,  sailors  and 
marines  rushed  with  precipitation  to  the  gangway  to  escape  the  instantly 
expected  explosion.  By  authority,  or  example,  he  changed  their  purpose, 
and  the  men  going  to  quarters,  saved  the  ship. 

Soon  after  his  return  the  Alligator  was  paid  off.  After  visiting 
Sweden,  Denmark,  and  Russia  he  returned  home  upon  the  troubles  with 
France,  and  in  charge  of  the  Melampus  frigate  was  employed  on  Channel 
service  to  the  close  of  1794.  While  exerting  himself  on  a  boisterous 
night,  when  the  frigate  was  in  great  danger  of  destruction,  he  sustained  a 
similar  injury  to  that  at  the  Nore,  which  compelled  him  to  leave  his  shij:), 
and  for  some  time  he  remained  a  cripple.  Nine  months  later,  however, 
while  recovering  his  strength  at  Leith  on  service,  he  was  sent  as  resident 
commissioner  of  Corsica,  and  remained  till  October,  1796,  when  the  island 
was  evacuated.  From  Elba  he  was  removed  to  Lisbon  to  take  charge  for 
the  next  two  years  of  the  naval  establishment  at  that  place.     He  was  thence 


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despatched  to  superintend  the  arsenal  at  Port  Mahon  when  Minorca  fell 
into  the  hands  of  the  English,  and  from  there  ordered  to  Nova  Scotia  in  the 
Venus  frigate.  At  Halifax,  and  afterward  at  Sheerness,  as  resident  commis- 
sioner, he  was  employed  till  April,  1804,  when  appointed  rear-admiral  he 
hoisted  his  flag  on  the  Gladiator  on  duty  at  Portsmouth,  and  the  following 
month  he  was  created  a  baronet.  The  record  recites  the  grant  of  the 
Magdalen  Islands  in  the  St.  Lawrence,  for  his  unremitting  zeal  and  perse- 
vering efforts  in  the  public  service.  He  was  promoted  four  years  later  to 
the  grade  of  vice-admiral,  which  ended  his  naval  duties  afloat,  though  he 
became  full  admiral  in  1814  by  regular  seniority. 

This  sketch  of  his  services  at  sea  is  very  incomplete.  The  memoir  of 
him  in  1822,  by  Marshall,  in  London,  when  he  was  in  Parliament,  is  brief, 
and  the  obituary  in  The  Gentle7na?i' s  Magazine  when  he  died,  not  even 
as  extended.  I  have  no  data  of  his  cruise  in  the  Pacific,  along  the  shore 
of  Australia,  mentioned  by  Mr.  Allen  Coffin,  which  has  left  its  trace  on  the 
charts  in  Sir  Isaac's  Point  and  Coffin's  Bay.  It  seems  more  likely  to  have 
taken  place  about  the  close  of  the  last  century  or  the  beginning  of  this. 

His  prize  money  in  such  troubled  times  had  been  considerable.  This 
he  entrusted  to  my  father,  one  of  his  cousins  in  his  native  place,  favorably 
circumstanced,  to  invest  it  to  advantage,  and  it  was  said  that  the  income 
finally  equalled  the  original  deposits.  He  made  frequent  visits  to  his  early 
home  in  the  course  of  his  busy  life  upon  the  sea,  having  made  more  than 
thirty  voyages  to  and  fro  to  America. 

Affluent  and  a  baronet,  he  naturally  longed  for  a  home  and  inclined  to 
transmit  his  baronetcy  to  his  posterity.  March,  181 1,  he  married  Elizabeth 
Browne,  the  only  child  of  William  Greenly,  of  Titley  Court,  in  Hereford- 
shire. Her  family,  brought  up  with  rigid  notions  of  propriety,  did  not  take 
kindly  to  the  hearty  and  jovial  ways  which  characterized  naval  officers,  and 
the  match  proved  less  happy  than  expected. 

It  is  said  that  on  one  occasion,  returning  to  Titley  Court  on  some  par- 
ticularly festal  day,  he  ordered  the  sexton,  as  he  passed  through  the  village, 
to  ring  a  merry  peal  and  send  the  tenants  to  the  mansion  to  drink  a  glass 
of  ale.  This  mortally  off"ended  the  lord  of  the  manor,  who  thus  found  his 
prerogative  invaded  by  the  husband  of  his  only  child.  Within  a  few  years, 
satisfied  of  their  utter  incompatibility  of  temper,  they  very  amicably,  on 
both  sides,  arranged  for  independence  of  each  other. 

Without  intending  to  detract  from  her  merit,  the  lady  indulged  in  literary- 
tastes  of  a  religious  tendency.  She  was  said  to  be  addicted  to  writing  ser- 
mons at  night,  to  the  disturbance  of  the  slumbers  of  her  rollicking  spouse, 
and  so,  after  a  space  they  separated.  She  remained  Lady  Greenly  and  he 
resumed  the  name  of  Coffin.  The  fault  was  certainly  not  hers,  who  was  a 
clever  and  exemplary  woman,  but  somewhat  eccentric  in  her  ways.  In 
after-life  she  was  well  known  in  Bath,  England,  remarkable  for  wearing, 
Welsh-woman  fashion,  a  man's  round  hat,  a  riding  habit  cut  short,  and  for 
wielding  a  gold-headed  cane.  She  lived  nearly  as  long  as  he  did,  but  they 
barely  met,  though  he  made  repeated  overtures  to  reconciliation,  some 
rather  amusing. 

When  shipwrecked  in  the  Boston,  struck  by  lightning  on  her  way 
from  Charlesto wn  to  Liverpool  in  1829,  in  the  boat  for  several  days  with 
little  hope  of  rescue,  for  the  seas  were  not  then  as  much  traversed  as  now, 
he  expressed  great  affection  for  her,  and  gave  his  watch  to  the  captain  to 
send  her  should  he  himself  not   survive  their  perils  and  the  captain  be 


20  Admiral  Sir  Isaac  Coffin,  Bart.  [Jan., 

fortunate  enough  to  escape.  While  in  the  crowded  boat,  on  this  occasion, 
with  no  shelter  and  little  covering,  and  the  scantiest  supply  of  food  and 
water,  his  own  cheerfulness,  interesting  conversation,  and  ebullitions  of 
good  humor,  kept  his  companions  in  heart  and  courage. 

It  is  the  reasonable  ambition  of  all  Englishmen  whose  conditions  and 
circumstances  justify  such  aspirations,  to  be  permitted  to  take  part  in  the 
legislation  and  government  of  their  country,  and  when  his  own  health  and 
the  peace  rendered  active  service  in  the  Navy  no  longer  desirable,  his 
wish  was  gratified  by  his  return  to  Parliament.  One  of  his  friends.  Lord 
Darlington,  had  influence  enough  to  secure  his  return  in  1818,  for  the 
borough  of  Ilchester,  for  which  he  sat  till  the  dissolution  in  1826.  His 
reputation  and  experience  gave  especial  weight  to  his  opinions  when  he 
took  part,  as  he  frequently  did,  in  debates  on  naval  affairs.  What  he  said 
attracted  attention  to  its  practical  good  sense  by  the  hilarity  of  his  nature 
and  happy  stores  of  illustration  that  amused  while  they  convinced.  He 
was  tall,  robust,  but  of  symmetrical  proportions ;  his  voice  powerful,  and 
his  countenance  expressive  and  noble.  His  long  habits  of  command  and 
contention  with  the  elements  inspired  confidence  in  himself,  which  com- 
manded that  of  the  House.  He  was  widely  known  and  generally  popular, 
and  happily  constituted  to  enjoy  the  social  pleasures  attending  success, 
tempered  in  their  indulgence  by  occasional  twinges  of  gout. 

Among  affluent  and  influential  circles,  nowhere  more  than  in  England, 
does  the  social  board  shape  public  opinion,  develop  and  test  ability,  or 
even  control  affairs.  This  was  more  the  case  half  a  century  ago  than  since 
reform  bills  have  opened  the  door  more  widely  to  popular  representation. 
Officials  and  legislators  were  exclusively  selected  from  rank  and  wealth,  or 
for  extraordinary  ability  and  statesmanship,  and  the  aristocracy  they  repre- 
sented regarded  the  government  as  their  especial  concern.  Much  could 
be  said  in  the  privacy  of  social  discussion  which  would  have  been  wholly 
impolitic  through  the  press,  or  in  the  halls  of  legislation.  From  memoirs 
and  biographies  since  published,  what  took  place  behind  the  scenes  has 
come  to  light  to  show  how,  and  by  whom,  public  affairs  were  conducted 
and  managed.  Many  wise  and  noble  statesmen  were  among  the  leaders, 
but  much  has  transpired  that  had  better  have  been  consigned  to  oblivion. 
Social  chat  at  the  table  was  not  altogether  political ;  it  embraced  every 
conceivable  topic,  and  the  brilliant  encounters  of  wit,  the  profound  specu- 
lation of  philosophy,  the  flood  of  anecdote  and  historical  reminiscences 
contributed  to  the  intellectual  banquet. 

From  his  varied  opportunities  and  confidential  acquaintance  with  "men 
and  affairs,  few  had  more  to  impart  to  the  general  entertainment  of  the 
hour  than  Sir  Isaac.  He  possessed  rich  stores  of  the  information  most 
valued,  and  his  jovial  nature  was  contagious  and  irresistible.  In  the 
brilliant  round  of  London  hospitalities,  in  the  happily-ordered  routine  of 
country  life,  where  scores  of  able  men  met  in  the  easiest  freedom  from 
constraint  as  guests  together,  he  was  everywhere  an  acquisition.  I 
remember  well  weeks  passed  under  the  same  roof  with  him  when  preparing 
for  my  college  examinations.  The  family  were  in  the  country,  and  he  was 
tied  by  the  foot  to  his  couch  by  the  gout.  But  from  morning  till  night, 
droll  stories,  amusing  incidents,  whimsies  and  oddities  of  every  description 
exploded  like  fireworks  from  the  aged  man's  pillow,  intermingled  with 
occasional  garnish  of  more  savage  intensity  at  his  anguish. 

I  have  still  a  vivid  recollection  of  him  in  his  undress  uniform  as  a 


i886,J  Admiral  Sir  Isaac  Coffin,  Bart.  21 

British  admiral,  at  an  earlier  period,  in  fine  health  and  the  perfection  of 
physical  maturity,  on  the  wide  lawn  and  in  the  spacious  parlors  of  Belmont, 
his  cousin's  and  my  uncle's  home.  He  was  then  tall  and  erect,  with  rich 
color  in  his  cheeks  and  merry  sparkle  in  his  eye,  brimming  over  with 
animal  spirits,  companionable,  and  with  fitting  chat  for  all.  His  funny 
words  and  ways  were  the  delight  and  dread  of  the  children,  into  whose 
frolics  he  entered  with  zest,  bewildering  their  minds  with  his  drolleries, 
both  they  and  himself  exploding  with  merriment  at  practical  jokes  too 
good-natured  to  offend. 

His  impulses  were  quick  and  generous  ;  his  disposition  to  be  of  service 
to  his  least  fortunate  kinsfolk  he  manifested  by  frequent  visits  and  liberal 
benefactions  ;  and  if  occasionally  awaking  expectations  which  change  of 
impression  or  circumstances  disappointed,  his  imperfections  as  well  as 
his  noble  traits,  constituted  a  part  of  his  character. 

While  a  guest  at  my  father's  summer  house  at  Newton,  he  found  in 
the  pastor  of  the  church  there — Parson  Homer — an  excellent,  learned,  but 
somewhat  eccentric  clergyman,  who  had  been  his  schoolmate  at  the  Boston 
Latin  school.  The  parson,  who  frequently  came  to  dinner,  was  apt  to  be 
a  little  long  over  his  grace,  to  the  cooling  of  the  soup.  The  renewal  of 
their  early  friendship  was  a  pleasure  to  both,  and  the  dominie  being  versed 
in  biblical  lore,  the  Admiral  added  much  to  the  enjoyment  of  his  later 
years  by  the  gift  of  a  rare  and  costly  Bible. 

What  remains  of  his  correspondence  here  is  creditable  to  his  good 
sense,  to  his  ability  as  a  writer,  to  his  broad  sympathies.  Soon  after  the 
war  ended,  he  established  in  our  Massachusetts  waters  a  school-ship  for 
our  mates  and  skippers  to  learn  the  art  of  navigation.  The  barge  Clite, 
which  he  purchased  for  the  purpose,  was  commanded  by  his  kinsman. 
Captain  Hector  Coffin,  of  the  Newburyport  branch  of  the  name,  and  he 
was  imprudent  enough,  in  1826,  to  go  up  in  her  to  Quebec,  flaunting  the 
American  flag.  These  generous  projects  involved  large  expenditures,  and 
when  his  brother.  General  John  Coffin,  of  New  Brunswick,  urged  him  to 
abandon  what  gave  umbrage  at  home,  he  cheerfully  acquiesced  in  giving 
up  what  had  cost  him  several  thousands  of  pounds.  His  desire  to  be  of 
service  to  the  land  of  his  birth,  nevertheless,  prompted  other  beneficent 
efforts.  He  sent  over  to  Brighton,  Barefoot,  Serab,  and  several  other 
race-horses  that  had  recently  triumphed  in  the  Derby  and  other  well-known 
courses  to  improve  our  breed.  He  brought  over  in  crates,  from  English 
waters,  turbot,  the  first  of  the  European  variety  in  our  own,  and  imported 
rare  fruits  and  plants  for  our  horticulturists. 

He  was  warmly  attached  to  Nantucket,  where  his  ancestors  and  their 
descendants  had  dwelt  for  so  many  generations.  lie  visited  the  place 
and  became  acquainted  with  his  kinsfolk,  and  in  1826  appropriated  ten 
thousand  dollars,  afterward  increased  till  now  about  ;^i  0,000,  as  a  fund 
for  a  school  for  the  instruction  of  the  posterity  of  Tristram.  This  includes 
nearly  every  native-born  child  of  the  island,  besides,  perhaps,  thousands  in 
every  State  in  the  Union,  who  by  future  residence  may  come  within  its 
benefits.  The  Academy  still  flourishes,  though  if  our  present  system  of 
public  instruction  had  then  reached  its  present  development,  his  benefac- 
tions would  probably  have  assumed  another  form. 

Soon  after  his  mishaps,  to  which  we  have  already  alluded,  when  burned 
out  of  the  cotton  ship  when  near  Charleston,  in  1829,  he  came  to  Pioston, 
and  when  some  fresh  attacks  of  his  painful  disorder  induced  by  the  ex- 
posure permitted,  he  hastened  back  to  England. 


22  Admiral  Sir  Isaac  Coffin,  Bart.  [Jan., 

The  Duke  of  Clarence,  William  the  Fourth,  had  succeeded  his  brother 
George  on  the  throne.  His  long  connection  with  the  Navy  attached  to 
him  the  officers  who  had  grown  old  with  himself.  It  was  said  that  when 
the  King  was  urged  to  create  new  peers  to  carry  the  Reform  Bill  through 
the  Lords,  Sir  Isaac  was  high  up  on  his  list  as  Earl  of  Magdalen.  The 
House  of  Lords  gave  in  and  voted  for  the  Reform  Bill,  and  the  proposed 
new  peers  were  not  created.  Sir  Isaac  did  not  long  survive  his  royal  friend. 
The  23d  of  June,  1839,  at  the  age  of  eighty,  he  died  at  Cheltenham,  in 
Gloucestershire,  and  there  he  was  buried.  Lady  Coffin  preceded  him  to 
the  tomb  on  the  27th  of  January  of  that  year.  His  brother,  General  John 
Coffin,  died  the  year  before,  his  death  having  taken  place  June  12,  1838,  in 
New  Brunswick. 

Commodore  Hull,  of  our  Navy,  was  one  of  his  correspondents,  and 
General  Wilson,  one  of  your  vice-presidents,  has  been  good  enough  to 
permit  me  to  read  many  letters  that  passed  between  them  after  the  War 
of  i8i2,and  when  the  two  countries  were  at  peace.  This  correspondence 
displays  alike  in  both  the  genial  and  generous  traits  which  the  Navy  is  thought 
peculiarly  to  foster.  I  propose  to  refer  to  one  subject  more  than  once 
mentioned  in  these  letters,  which,  to  use  the  old  phrase,  might  seem  only 
a  fish  story  and  for  the  marines,  if  not  evidently  believed  by  himself.  It  is 
in  reference  to  the  size  attained  in  former  days  by  lobsters  on  our  coasts. 
In  the  freedom  of  intercourse  around  the  table  or  on  the  quarter-deck,  while 
once  returning  to  America,  he  alleged  that  lobsters  had  been  found 
weighing  ninety  pounds.  Though  given  somewhat  to  rhodomontade,  he 
seems  in  this  instance  to  have  believed  the  fact  based  on  hearsay,  if  not 
on  sight.  My  own  fishmonger  told  me  that  within  his  experience  in  these 
waters  twenty-five  pounds  was  the  largest  that  had  come  to  his  knowledge, 
but  I  have  seen  it  stated  that  lobsters  of  much  larger  weight  have  been 
found  down  East,  where  there  is  more  room  for  expansion  and  imagination. 
The  size  attained  by  turtles  and  other  shell-fish  in  neighboring  waters 
renders  such  possibilities  less  incredible. 

Apropos  of  Hull  and  Sir  Isaac,  my  friend,  General  Wilson,  in  a  recent 
address  on  Commodore  Hull  and  the  frigate  Constitution,  said  :  *'  When  in 
the  presence  of  a  Boston-born  British  admiral,  another  naval  officer  indulged 
in  laudatory  and  extravagant  comments  on  the  capture  of  the  Chesa- 
peake and  endeavored  to  underrate  the  American  naval  victories  of  the 
War  of  18 12-14,  3.nd  particularly  that  gained  over  the  Guerri^re,  he  said, 
*  It  was  a  lucky  thing  for  your  friend  Broke  that  he  fell  in  with  the  unpre- 
pared Chesapeake,  and  not  with  Hull  and  the  Constitution.  If  he  had,  no 
Tower  guns  would  have  been  heard  celebrating  a  Shannon  victory.'  This 
manly  and  patriotic  statement  was  made  by  Sir  Isaac  Coffin  at  the  dinner 
table  of  the  Duke  of  Wellington,  and  was  related  to  me  by  his  eldest  son, 
the  second  Duke,  who  was  present.  On  the  same  occasion,  when  some- 
one spoke  sneeringly  of  the  Americans  as  soldiers,  a  general  of  my  own 
name  remarked,  '  I  have  been  through  the  Penmsular  campaign  and  was 
with  the  duke  at  Waterloo,  but  harder  fighting  I  never  saw  than  we  had  at 
Lundy's  Lane.' " 

Sir  Isaac's  character  was  too  racy  and  various  not  at  times  to  provoke 
censure  or  criticism.  He  did  so  much  that  should  not  be  forgotten,  so 
much  entitled  to  be  remembered,  that,  had  the  times  or  the  occasion  al- 
lowed, I  should  mention  several  anecdotes  that  have  come  to  my  knowl- 
edge, which  show  what  he  was  from  all  points  of  view.     One  incident  may 


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serve  to  explain  how  sometimes  he  created  ill-will  by  yielding  too  much  to 
his  impulses, 

1  have  already  mentioned  that  the  judicious  investment  of  his  pay  and 
prize  money  by  one  of  his  cousins  had  made  him  rich.  In  various  ways 
he  expressed  his  gratitude  even  to  another  generation.  In  a  paper  alluded 
to  in  his  will  he  left  bequests  to  a  long  list  of  his  kindred,  many  of  whom 
were  in  straitened  circumstances,  others  better  off.  He  did  not  forget 
bequeathing  five  hundred  pounds  to  my  father's  children.  He  was  a  clever, 
pushing,  energetic  seaman,  much  given  to  rough  humor,  and  practical 
jokes  in  vogue  in  his  day.  He  was  equally  ready  with  hand  and  tongue, 
having  upon  one  occasion  pugilistically  fought  his  way  through  a  cabal  of 
disappointed  Portuguese  contractors  at  Lisbon,  intent  on  his  destruction 
with  the  knife. 

But  I  have  already  exceeded  my  limit ;  much  omitted  may  find  place  in 
some  future  publication.  I  have  not  aimed  at  eulogy  or  indulged  in  illus- 
tration, but  simply  recited  facts  that  have  come  to  me  from  diligent  study 
of  the  subject,  many  of  whom  had  escaped  previous  investigation.  The 
memory  of  a  Boston  boy,  who  by  dint  of  his  own  native  energy  attained 
the  highest  rank  in  the  British  navy,  a  generous  benefactor  whose  works 
still  bear  witness  to  the  noble  impulse  that  prompted  them,  thus  rescued 
from  oblivion  in  your  publications,  may  find  interested  readers  not  only 
among  his  numberless  kinsfolk,  but  even  among  a  larger  circle  of  readers. 

The  engraving  of  Sir  Isaac  which  accompanies  this  address  is  taken 
from  a  portrait  by  Gilbert  Stuart,  that  formerly  belonged  to  his  cousin, 
Thomas  C.  Aniory,  on  Franklin  Place,  Boston,  and  in  my  earliest  recollec- 
tion hung  in  the  parlor  of  the  house  of  my  aunt,  Mrs.  Amory,  the  sister 
of  Admiral  Sir  Samuel  Hood  I^inzee,  cousin  of  Lords  Hood  and  Bridport. 
It  now  forms  part  of  the  precious  ancestral  gallery  of  my  cousin,  Mr.  Wil- 
liam Amory,  of  Beacon  Street,  Boston. 


RECENT  DISCOVERIES  IN  EARLY  ENGLISH  HISTORY 
OF  TRACES  OF  THE  DWIGHT  FAMILY  BY  PRO- 
FESSOR THEODORE  W.  DWIGHT,  OF  COLUMBIA  COL- 
LEGE   LAW   SCHOOL,    NEW   YORK. 


By  Benjamin  W.  Dwight,  of  Clinton,  Oneida  County,  N.  Y. 


In  1878,  Professor  Theodore  W.  Dwight,  of  New  York,  the  writer's 
brother,  spent  the  summer  of  that  year  in  travelling,  with  his  family,  in 
England  and  on  the  continent.  While  in  England  he  made  direct  and 
vigorous  personal  effort  to  find  what  proofs  he  could  of  early  Dwight 
activity  in  English  life.  Happily  he  went  to  Henley-on-the-Thames,  and 
found  that  there,  in  the  sixteenth  and  seventeenth  centuries,  large  numbers 
of  Dwights  had  lived  and  thrived  ;  and  although  no  one  of  the  name,  or  hav- 
ing any  connection  with  it  by  marriage  or  descent,  could  be  found  to  be  now 
living  in  the  place,  they  had  left  many  evidences  of  their  presence  and 
activity  there  in  those  by-gone  days,  and  had  borne  just  such  names  and 
characteristics  as  have  prevailed  in  the  family  in  recent  times  and  on  other 
shores.     He  started  upon  his  tour  of  foreign  travel  charged  with  the  feel- 


24  Recent  Discoveries  of  Traces  of  the  Dwight  Family.  [Jan., 

ing  to  the  full  that  in  old  England,  and  in  Oxfordshire  especially,  there 
must  be  somewhere,  hidden  from  view  now,  but  discoverable  by  earnest 
effort  still,  the  traces  of  the  presence  of  our  fathers  and  kinsmen  on  the 
old  ancestral  ground.  His  general  legal  knowledge  led  him  to  make  a 
thorough  search  into  what  facts  he  might  find  revealed  in  the  treasured 
stores  of  "The  Somerset  House,"  in  London.  This  is  a  large  government 
building  used  for  preserving  records  of  wills  and  public  documents  and 
government  papers  of  permanent  value.  In  carefully  searching  for  what 
he  might  perchance  here  find  concerning  anyone  of  the  name  of  Dwight, 
among  records  of  wills  or  title-deeds  of  property,  his  attention  was  directed 
early  and  strongly  toward  Henley,  and  he  determined  to  visit  that  spot 
speedily  himself,  to  ascertain  upon  the  ground  what  he  could  about  the 
names  and  histories  of  any  of  the  family  name  who  might  have  been  but  a 
little  while  ago  busy  actors  in  its  scenes.  The  discoveries  that  he  made, 
in  a  brief  but  well-employed  visit  there,  were  large  and  satisfactory,  and 
quite  beyond  any  previous  expectation  on  his  part,  or  the  supposed  ex- 
istence of  any  such  facile  means  of  making  the  good  headway  for  himself 
and  others  amid  the  great  and  as  was  generally  thought  impenetrable 
obscurities  and  uncertainties  of  other  days,  that  he  found  to  be  in  fact  so 
ready  at  hand.  The  record  here  secured,  and  which  the  writer  regards  as 
of  great  and  particular  value  in  itself  as  a  matter  of  new  and  curious  in- 
formation to  the  family  everywhere,  is  presented  as  an  accurate  Digest,  in 
full  detail,  of  the  facts  obtained  by  Professor  Dwight,  as  reported  to  the 
writer  from  time  to  time  in  various  letters. 

"  Parish  records  began  in  England  in  the  reign  of  Edward  VI.,  in  1540- 
50.  Such  records  began  in  Henley  in  1558  ;  and  the  first  record  of  the 
D wights  occurs  there,  under  date  of  November,  1560,  of  the  name  of 
Priscilla  Dwight,  daughter  of  Richard.  The  name  was  spelled  by  the  record- 
ing clerk,  in  the  first  record  of  it  in  Henley,  as  it  is  now  with  us.'' 

Professor  Dwight  found  also,  on  more  extended  examination,  refer- 
ences to  Dwights  as  living  in  the  town  of  Oxford,  Oxfordshire,  and  in 
Newnham  Murren,  a  parish  in  Langtree  Hundred  (Union  of  Wallingford, 
Oxfordshire).  The  vicarage  is  attached  to  North  Stoke  ;  and  Newnham 
Murren  is  a  parish  eleven  miles  from  Henley.  Henley  itself  is  some  thirty- 
five  miles  northerly  from  London  on  the  Thames,  lying  in  clear  and  smooth 
view  from  its  banks,  and  is  famous  for  a  handsome  tower  supposed  to  have 
been  built  by  Cardinal  Wolsey,  and  a  Gothic  bridge  designed,  it  is  believed, 
by  Sir  Christopher  Wren.  The  rising  ground  backward  from  the  Thames 
is  beautified  with  the  country- seats  of  those  who  are  both  able  and  disposed 
to  enjoy  their  wealth  and  their  taste  in  such  a  way.  Henley  is  known  to 
the  reading  public  of  this  country  as  a  favorite  resort  for  rowing-matches 
and  regattas  and  prize  contests. 

The  name  Dwight  is  plainly  derived  from  Doit,  or  Doyt,  or  Doito,  as  an 
earlier  form  (the  final  o  in  this  form  of  it  having  been  probably  attached  to  it 
in  order  to  give  distinct  expression  and  significance  to  the  final  t,  as  radical 
to  the  word,  which  would  have  been  otherwise  left  silent,  according  to  the 
custom  in  French  pronunciation.  It  is  of  Norman  origin.  There  were 
persons  in  Normandy  bearing  the  name  in  the  year  1185.  The  names 
VViUiam,  Ranald,  Ralph,  and  Richard  de  Doito  are  all  to  be  found  there  in 
•'  The  Great  Rolls  of  the  Exchequer  of  Normandy."  See  "  Magni  Rotuli 
Scaccaric'e  de  Normandie"  (a  book  in  the  possession  of  the  Society  of  Anti- 
quarians, in  Normandy). 


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So  too,  William  del  Doyt  and  his  son  Roger  (a  Norman  name)  are 
names  found  in  the  County  of  Oxford,  in  England,  in  Shipton-under-Wyche- 
wood,  in  the  year  1272,  reign  of  Edward  I.,  as  holders  of  land.  The  tenure 
under  which  they  held  the  specific  grant  made  to  them,  as  well  as  then- 
own  individual  names,  are  given  in  a  work  published  by  the  English 
Government,  termed  "Rotuli  Hundredorum,"  p.  735  (or  "Rolls  of  Hundreds, 
the  word  hundred  being  equivalent  in  such  a  use  at  that  time  to  our  word 
town).  See  on  this  point  a  book  called  "  The  Norman  People  in  Eng- 
land," published  by  Henry  S.  King,  London,  1874,  p.  233. 

Persons  of  the  name  Uoyt  are  referred  to  in  the  <'  Rotuli  Normani^ 
("  Rolls  of  Normandy  "),  found  in  the  Tower  of  London,  and  referring  to  let- 
ters and  grants  of  the  Kings  of  England  in  Normandy.  The  years  included 
in  the  first  volume  of  this  work  (printed  by  order  of  the  English  Govern- 
ment) are  1200-1257,  and  1417.  .  ,  .  -  ,  ^ 
The  roll  of  the  fifth  year  of  Henry  V.  contains  letters  of  safe  conduct, 
issued  by  the  king,  for  persons  who  had  submitted  to  his  authority,  or 
who,  having  been  made  prisoners,  had  paid  ransom  money  for  their  liberty. 
On  p  347,  vol  i.,  is  found  the  following  letter  of  protection  to  many  per- 
sons, including  knights  ;  and  among  others  to  Johes  (for  Johannes)  du 
Doit  de  Sees  (a  town  in  Normandy),  armiger  (a  knight). 

"The  King  to  all  persons,  to  whom  these  presents  may  come,  Greet- 
ing •  Know  ye,  that  we  have  taken  under  our  protection  and  defense,  A. 
B  Knicrht  &c,  our  sworn  liege,  as  well  as  his  lands,  goods,  rents,  and  all 
his  possessions.  Done  at  the  Royal  Castle  of  D'Alen^on,  in  the  Duchy 
of  Normandy,  Oct.  28  (5.  Henry  V.)." 
On  p.  283  are  the  following  words  : 

"  The  King  to  all  to  whom  these  presents  may  come,  Greeting  :  Know 
ye  that  as,  we  have  received  diverse  rents  &c  for  the  support  of  four 
chaplains  in  the  Holy  Church  of  St.  Sauveur,  at  Cadomus  (or  Caen)  we 
have  granted  to  our  well-beloved  William  Clerc,  John  Le  Seigneur,  Thomas 
Lebouestre  and  William  Du  Doyt,  now,  ciiaplains  of  the  said  church,  and 
to  Nicholas  Vernay,  custodian  and  procurator  of  the  fabric  of  said  church, 
all  the  said  rents— to  be  appropriated  to  prayers  for  our  spiritual  health  ; 
and  it  is  commanded  to  bailiffs,  all  and  singular,  to  permit  the  said  Chap- 
lains to  receive  all  the  rents  as  aforesaid,  by  the  King  himself."  ^ 

"William  Du  Doyt"  is  thus  shown  to  have  been  a  royal,  or  kings, 
chaplain,  in  the  Cathedral  at  Caen  at  that  time  (that  of  the  "  Holy  Church 
of  the  Holy  Saviour").  This  book  of  "  The  Rollsof  Normandy  "  only  covers 
a  period  of  one  year,  and  in  it  there  are  two  Doits  named  ;  one  a  knight, 
or  esquire,  at  Sees,  and  the  other  a  chaplain  of  the  Church  of  the  Holy 
Saviour  at  Caen,  Normandy.  _  -i    u  ,. 

In  Johnson's  Cyclopedia,  article  Caen,  vol.  1.,  p.  697,  we  read  that 
Caen  (Cadon.us)  was  formerly  the  capital  of  Lower  Normandy,  and  that 
its  streets  are  wide,  regular,  and  clean  ;  and  it  has  several  fine  public 
squares,  and  many  noble  specimens  of  ancient  Norman  architecture  ;  and 
that  its  houses  are  generally  btiilt  of  an  excellent  cream-colored  freestone, 
found  in  its  vicinity,  called  Caen-stone,  a  light  yellow  building-stone  an 
oolitic  sandstone  in  its  structure,  easily  worked,  and  often  exported  to 
England  for  building  purposes.  The  Cathedral  of  St.  Etienne  in  it  was 
founded  by  William  the  Conquerer  ;  and  the  Church  La  Trinite  by  Queen 
Matilda,  in  the  eleventh  century.  The  castle  commenced  in  it  by  William 
the  Conqueror,  and  finished  by  his  son,  Henry  L,  was  partially  destroyed 


26  Recent  Discoveries  of  Traces  of  the  Dwight  Family.  [Jan., 

in  1793.  Caen  became  subject  to  the  Normans  as  early  as  912.  It  was 
the  residence  of  William,  the  Duke  of  Normandy,  before  he  conquered 
England.  It  was  taken  and  pillaged  by  Edward  III.,  of  England.  It  has 
now  a  population  of  more  than  forty  thousand  people,  and  is  connected  by 
rail  with  Paris.  For  an  account  of  its  public  buildings,  and  for  what  varied 
manufactures  it  is  celebrated,  see  article  Caen  in  Cyclo])?edia. 

To  Caen,  in  Normandy,  is  the  first  and  earliest  place  to  which  the  his- 
tory of  the  Dwights  of  America  and  England  can  now  be  directly  and  dis- 
tinctly traced.  All  honor  to  Professor  Dwight,  of  Columbia  College,  New 
York,  for  the  unlooked-for  discovery,  and  for  the  good  evidence  which  he 
has  been  able  to  furnish  for  the  soundness  of  his  convictions  upon  the  sub- 
ject, and  of  ours,  also,  with  him,  in  the  same  direction,  measure  for  measure. 

Besides  thus  successfully  tracing  the  Dwights  to  Normandy,  and  into 
the  presence  of  William  the  Conqueror  himself,  as  manifestly  known  to 
him,  and  under  appointments  of  trust  and  honor  by  him,  and  proven  there- 
by to  have  been  men  of  character  and  worth,  and  not  men  at  all  of  low 
auns  and  inadequate  purposes,  for  a  true  and  magnanimous  life,  in  their  far- 
off  places  of  existence  and  action  upon  the  borders  of  modern  civilization — 
Professor  Dwight  has  recently  found,  likewise,  and  almost,  as  it  were,  seem- 
ingly by  a  happy  accident,  the  origin  of  the  family  name,  as  clearly  pre- 
sented in  a  work  entitled  "L'Histoire  Des  Villes  de  France,"  or  "The 
History  of  the  Cities  of  France."  He  has  possessed  himself  of  a  copy  of 
it,  and  a  copy  may  also  be  found  in  the  library  of  Columbia  College,  New 
York.  From  this  copy  the  writer  prepared  the  translation  from  the  orig- 
inal French  there  furnished.     This  it  is  : 

"  The  Burgh  (or  Market-town)  of  St.  John 
of  the  (sacred  or  miracle-working)  finger." 

Everybody  spoke,  in  those  days,  of  nothing  else  than  the  unheard-of 
marvels  wrought  in  the  commune  of  Plongaznon,  near  to  Morlaix,  by  a 
finger  of  St.  John  the  Baptist.  It  was  said,  for  example,  that  some 
Englishmen,  who  in  1489  pillaged  the  coast  of  Tregnier,  took  the  sacred 
relic  into  their  possession  ;  and  when  they  arrived  home  they  were 
surprised  to  find  that  the  coveted  and  stolen  relic  had  forsaken  its  place 
of  hidden  concealment,  and  was  no  longer  to  be  found  in  its  casket. 
Duchess-Anne  determined  to  procure  the  miracle-working  finger,  and  to 
put  its  secret  power  to  the  proof  by  applying  it  to  her  left  eye,  for  her 
majesty  was  much  troubled  with  a  permanent  deflection  that  had  hai)pened 
to  her  angle  of  vision.  Whatever  they  did,  the  precious  finger,  although  so 
potent  in  its  own  energy  and  influence,  would  not  leave  its  retreat  of 
quiet,  immobile  inaction,  not  even  to  suit  the  good  duchess'  ideas  or 
wishes.  Scarcely  had  the  clergy,  although  accompanied  by  a  large  crowd 
of  believers,  borne  it  away  from  its  shrine,  than,  on  bemg  left  to  its  own 
freedom,  it  returned  by  a  spontaneous,  divine  energy  to  it  again.  The 
duchess,  being  enlightened  by  the  miracle  concerning  the  divine  natuie 
and  scope  of  its  power  to  work  wonders,  asked  forgiveness  of  the  saint  for 
not  having  first  made  a  visit  to  his  shrine,  and  made  haste  to  go  in  great 
pomp  and  humble  herself  at  his  altar.  She  afterward  exempted  the  in- 
habitants of  the  town  of  St.  John  Du  Doigt  (of  the  Sacred  Finger)  from 
all  taxes  and  imposts  ;  she  gave  them  nobility,  or  ennoblement,  and  she 
loaded  their  church  with  special  benefactions.  Such  a  sudden  bestowment  of 
so  unexpected  advantages  on  the  pious  colony  named  was  not,  certainly, 


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the  least  of  the  wonders  in  which  the  marvellous  power  of  the  Holy  Fore- 
runner (of  Christ)  was  visibly  manifested.  . 

In  15 18  King  Francis  visited,  also,  the  city  of  xMorlaix,  and  his  joyous 
entree  was  celebrated  by  a  reception  so  brilliant  that  it  exceeded,  per- 
chance, in  popular  displays  of  prodigality,  the  prosperous  days  ot    the 

Duchess  Anne.  ^ 

"The  De  Witt  theory  of  the  origin  of  our  family,  adds  Frotessor 
Dwight,  in  a  letter  to  his  brother,  "  is  fully  exploded  (see  '  History  Dwight 
Family  '  vol.  i.,  p.  99)  ;  and  is  there  any  better  view  of  the  past  history  of 
our  family  now  attainable  than  what  I  can  furnish  both  in  theory  and  m 
fact  ?  "  We  answer  at  once  and  emphatically,  No,  brother  ;  none  that 
compares  with  it  for  interest  in  the  recital  of  it,  or  merit  in  its  discovery. 
Professor  Dwight  adds:  "The  spirit  of  the  early  Dwights  was  we  see, 
from  the  very  beginning  of  their  first  recorded  history  in  Normandy,  as  we 
can  trace  their  footsteps  there,  not  merely  agricultural,  or  chiefly  so,  or  ot 
a  mechanical  cast.  They  were  not  all  or  only  yeomen  ;  but  the  leaders 
amoncr  them  were  professional  in  their  tastes  and  habits,  as  have  been 
their  descendants  largely  in  their  chosen  style  of  employment  in  this  new 
world,  so  far  from  their  first  home  on  Gallic  shores."  So,  hurrah  for  Nor- 
mandy '  and  our  Norman  ancestors  of  ancient  times  1  and  the  good  o  d 
chaplains  of  St.  Sauveur  in  Caen!  Blessings  on  those  devout  old 
saintly  souls  that  prayed  with  systematic  constancy  and  fervor,  according  to 
the  best  light  obtainable  in  their  day,  for  the  royal  souls  that  coveted  what 
aid  their  prayers  could  give  tliem,  while  suffering  the  pangs  and  purifying 
influences  of  purgatory." 

I  The  following  names  of  early  Dwights  Professor  Dwight  found  on 
record  in  Henley-on-the-Thames,  England,  and  spelled  in  sixteen  different 
ways,  variously,  as  here  copied  from  the  Henley  records.  Such  dif- 
ferences of  orthography  represent  always,  of  course,  diff'erences  of  idea 
in  the  minds  of  the  clerks  who  record  the  names  thus  differently  spelled 
by  them    and  not  of  the  persons  who  wear  the  names  themselves  : 

1.  Nov.  1,  1560,  Priscilla  Dwight  (dau.  of  Richard)  baptized.  Name 
spelled  as  here  and  now.  . 

2.  Nov.  26,  1563,  Mayhew  (perhaps)  Dwight  and Donner  married 

("  Nupti ").  ^   ,         ,      u       \ 

3.  Feb.    19,    1564,    Jerome    Dewite   and    Johanna   Gobar    (perhaps) 

married. 

4.  Oct.  25,  1567,  John  Dwiggt  married  Femmige. 

5.  Aug.  22,  1568,  John  Dwight  (son  of  John)  bapt. 

6.  Feb.  13,  1569,  a  dau.  of  John  Dwight  bapt. 

7.  May  21,  1573,  Richard  Dwight  and  Annie  Dwight  married. 

8.  March  10,  1574,  Robert  Dwyte  (son  of  John)  bapt. 

9.  Nov.  1574,  John  Twytt  m.  Elizabeth  Stevens. 

10.  Jan.  1574,  Margery  Twitt  (dau.  of  Thos.)  bapt. 

11.  Jan.  I,'  1575,  John  Dwyght  (son  of  John)  bapt. 

12.  Jan.  1576,  Th.  (fern.)  Dwyte  Sepulta  buried. 

13.  Feb.  10,  1577,  Thos.  Dwyte  (son  of  John)  bapt. 

14.  Jan.  31,  1579,  Edmond  Dwyte  (son  of  John)  bapt. 

15.  Feb.  23,  1579,  Elizabeth  Dwyte  (dau.  of  Jerome)  bapt. 

16.  ,  1582,  Thomas  Dwight  (son  of  Thomas)  bapt. 

17.  April  22,  1582,  Sara  Dwight  (dau.  of  Thomas)  bapt. 


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i8.  Oct.  14,  1582,  William  Dwyte  (son  of  John)  bapt. 

19.  Dec.  19,  1584,  Sara  Dwyte  (dau.  of  John)  buried. 

20.  July  24,  1586,  John  Doit  (son  of  Thomas)  bapt. 

21.  March,  1586,  Richard  Doyt  (son  of  John)  bapt. 

22.  Jan.  1586,  Josiah  Dwyte  (son  of  John)  bapt. 

23.  Jan.  20,  1589,  Nicholas  Dwyght  (son  of  Nicholas)  bapt. 

24.  Feb.  19,  1589,  Nicholas  Dwight  m.  Agnes  Butler. 

25.  Feb.  27,  1594,  Thomas  Dwyte  m.  Elizabeth  Porter,  a  widow. 

26.  May  15,  1594,  Morgan  Dwigt  m.  Agnes . 

27.  Oct.  7,  1596,  Christopher  Dwyte  (son  of  Thomas)  bapt. 

28.  Dec.  19,  1599,  Susan  Dwait  (dau.  of  William)  bapt. 

29.  Jan.  I,  1602,  Henry  Dwite  (son  of  William)  bapt. 

30.  Nov.  19,  1604,  William  Dwite  m.  Johan  (rest  illegible). 

31.  Feb.,  1606,  Ellen  Dwite  (dau.  of  Edward)  buried. 

32.  Jan.  3,  1607,  Anne  Dwite  (dau.  of  Edward)  baptized.     Edward  De 
Graies  he  is  called  in  the  record,  probably  his  place  of  residence. 

2^2^.  Feb.  7,  1607,  Bridget  Dwite  (dau.  of  William,  of  Newnham  Murren) 
bapt. 

34.  Nov.  5,  1607,  Joseph  Dwight  (son  of  William,  of  Newnham  Murren) 
bapt. 

35.  Nov.  30,  1607,  Joseph  Dwight  (son  of  William)  buried. 

36.  April  12,  1610,  Griffin  Dwite  (son  of  William)  bapt. 

37.  Feb.  4,  1610,  William  Dwight  m.  Sara  Williamson. 

38.  May  20,  161 1,  Deodatus  Dwite  (son  of  William)  bapt. 

39.  May  28,  161 1,  Deodatus  Dwite  (son  of  William)  buried. 

40.  May  12,  1613,  Mary  Dwigght  (dau.  of  William)  bapt. 

41.  May  28,  1618,  Bridget  Dwyte  (dau.  of  William)  bapt. 

42.  July  16,  1612, ■  Devviht  (son  of  Jerome)  bapt. 

43.  Feb.  14,  1618,  Jas.  Dwyhit  (son  of  Jacob)  bapt. 

44.  Dec.  16,  1619,  Robert  Dwiton  (son  of  William)  bapt. 

45.  Aprils,  162 1,  John  Dwyte  m.  Sara  Harvey. 

46.  Aug.  22,  1622,  a  child  of  John  Dwight  buried.     Probably  intended 
to  be  recorded  as  unbaptized. 

47.  May  19,  1623,  William  Dwite  (son  of  William)  bapt. 

48.  March  7,  1623,  John  Dwite  (son  of )  bapt. 

49.  March  3,  1623,  Thomas  Dwite  de  1' buried. 

50.  April  14,  1628,  Johanna  Dwite  (wife  of  William)  buried. 
51    June  8,  1629,  William  Dwight  m.  Ann  Joy. 

52.  July,  1692,  G — 1  Dwite  (dau.  of  Edward)  bapt. 

53.  Feb.  18,  1633,  Josiah  Dwight  (son  of  B )  bapt. 

54.  Oct.  9,  1635,  Bridget  (dau.  of  Griffin  Dwight)  bapt. 

55.  Aug.  16,  1638,  William  Dwite  (son  of  Griffin)  bapt. 

56.  Oct.  8,  1638,  Richard  Hill  m.  Ehzabeth  Dwite. 

57.  ,  1639,  William  (son  of  Griffin  Dwite)  buried. 

58.  ,  1639,  Marie  Dwight  bapt. 

59.  March  14,  1641,  Susan  Dwight  (dau.  of  Griffin)  bapt. 

60.  July  20,  1642,  Bridget  Dwight  (dau.  of  Griffin)  buried. 

61.  Dec.  25,  1643,  a  child  of  Griffin  Dwight  bapt. 

62.  July  18,  1651,  William  Dwit  (son  of  William)  bapt.     In   the   same 
record  the  name  White  is  written  Whit, 

63.  May  8,  1647,  Thos.  Dwyte  (son  of  Griffin)  bapt. 

64.  Nov.  20,  1652,  John  Dwyte  (son  of  Thomas). 


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65.  Oct.  5,  1654,  Josiah  Dwite  and  Elizabeth  Slattbrooke.  Publication 
of  marriage. 

There  are  also  entered  as  taxable  these  names,  viz.: 

1.  Oct.  12,  1706,  Thomas  Dwight. 

2.  Jan,  29,  1 7 19,  John  Dwight,  Senior. 

3.  June  28,  1728,  Widow  Dwight. 

4.  Aug.  20,  1732,  Joan  Dwight. 

5. ,  1723,  William  Dwight  (son  of  William). 

6. ,  1723,  Margaret  Dwight  (dau.  of  WiUiam). 

The  spelling  is  often  poor  and  faulty  enough  in  the  English  records 
searched  to  obtain  the  facts  here  gathered— as  in  the  early  records  handed 
down  to  our  day  by  our  fathers  on  this  side  of  the  Atlantic. 

II  Records  of  wills  were  also  extensively  explored  by  Professor  Dwight, 
when  in  England,  wherever  they  could  be  found.  The  results  obtained  in 
such  a  way  from  Oxfordshire  are  here  briefly  detailed. 

I  John  Dwight,  of  Oxfordshire,  of  Henley.  The  Administration  of  his 
will  was  committed  to  his  son  Robert,  a.d.  1596.  Consistory  Court,  Ox- 
fordshire. ^    ,  .         ^   r     J 

II  A.D.  1607.  Elizabeth  Dwight,  of  St.  Peter  of  the  city,  Oxford. 
Minor  children :  Agnes  and  George  Dwight.     Administration  committed 

to  Wm.  Pope.  .  1     ■   •         .       ,      T7T     u  .1 

III.  A.D.  1680.    Josiah  Dwight,  Henley.    Administration  by  Elizabeth 

Dwight,  his  relict.     Consistory  Court,  London. 

IV.  Will  of  John  Dwight,  a.d.  1665.  In  this  there  was  a  provision  in 
favor  of  his  son  Francis.  The  will  was  twice  proven  ;  once  with  the  name 
spelled  as  Dwight,  and  again  as  Dwaite.  Consistory  Court,  London.  This 
lohn  Dwight  is  described  as  of  St.  Botolph,  Aldgate  ;  widow,  Eleonora. 

V.  A.D.  1637.  The  will  of  William  Dwight,  of  London,  donor  of  a 
charitable  bequest. 

The  original  will  is  long,  containing  sixteen  sheets  of  very  large,  square 
paper,  sealed  with  a  big  seal,  attached  by  a  parchment-strap,  and  attested 
by  six  witnesses,  and  signed  by  the  testator  April  11,  1637.     His  will  was 
very  devout  in  tone  of  feeling.     It  was  admitted  to  probate  in  May.     He 
divided  all   his   personal   estate   into   three  parts  :  giving  one  third  to  his 
three  daughters  combined,  Elizabeth,  Mary,  and  Anne,  his  only  children  ; 
another  third  to  his  wife,  Katharine,  and  the  rest  he  bestows  in  special  gifts 
upon  a  number  of  persons.     Among  others  he  mentions  his  kinsman,  Philip 
Dwight  (an  earlier  Philip  of  the  name  than  any  that  we  had  before  known), 
and  also  his  kinsman  and  godson,  William  Dwight.     He  also  refers  to  the 
following  names,  as  those  of  kindred:  Katharine  Robinson,  his  cousin  ; 
Martha  Olds,  Richard   North,  Goodwyn,  and  others.     He   speaks  of  his 
servant,  "  Bernard  Dwight,"  meaning  by  servant  "  apprentice,"  as  he  shows 
a  little  farther  on.     He  held  considerable  real  estate  m  different  places,  as 
at  Cornhill,  London,  where  he  lived  at  the  time  of  his  death,  and  at  Sud- 
bury, at  Harrow-on-the-Hill,  Middlesex.     He  gives  an  annuity  of  ^20  to 
his  brother,  John  Dwight,  £a  of  which  came  from  his  father's  estate  (named 
Robert)  and  £16  of  his  own  good  will.     He  gave  also  an  annuity  to  his 
mother  (Joan  Mabel).     He  was  "  a  tallow  chandler  and  a  member  of  the 
company  of  tallow  chandlers."     He   gave   an   annuity  to   that  company, 
charged  upon  his  real  estate,  for  the  support  of  the  poor.     Subject  to  this 
and  other  charges,  he  gives  a  certain  portion  of  his  estate  to  his  eldest 


^O  Recent  Discoveries  of  Traces  of  the  Diaight  Family.  [Jan., 

daughter,  Elizabeth,  and  other  portions  to  younger  daughters.  He  states 
that  his  land  at  Sudbury  alone  lets  at  ^84  annually,  a  large  sum  for  those 
days.  In  case  a  posthumous  son  should  be  born,  the  estates,  he  directs, 
shall  go  to  him,  instead  of  to  the  daughters.  He  names  seven  trustees  : 
three  being  "  esquires,"  two  "gentlemen,"  and  two  yeomen. 

"I  believe,"  says  Professor  Dwight,  "that  the  Robert  spoken  of  in  this 
paper  as  the  father  of  William  was  No.  8  in  the  list  of  persons  baptized  at 
Henley  (bapt.  March  10,  1574),  and  John  Dwight  (William's  brother)  to 
have  been  John  Dwight,  of  Henley,  Oxfordshire  (John,  of  St.  Botolph, 
Aldgate),  whose  name  is  found  on  the  record  of  wills,  as  No.  IV.,  under  date 
of  A.D.  1665." 

William  was  then  of  the  Henley  Family;  and  every  Dwight  that  we  can 
trace  in  England  before  1 700  comes  from  Oxfordshire. 

It  would  be  pleasant,  indeed,  to  be  able  to  say  definitely  that  one  of  the 
John  Dwights  recorded  at  Henley,  as  baptized  there  between  1568  and  1586, 
was  the  John  Dwight  afterward  of  Dedham,  Mass.,  from  whom  the  Amer- 
ican Dwights  are  all  descended.  We  cannot  yet,  however,  specify  and 
localize  the  exact  and  distinct  beginning  of  our  colonial  history  in  England 
as  a  family.     The  time  may  come. 

III.  In  answer  to  the  question  whether  he  could,  by  extended  and 
thorough  search,  find  any  of  the  family  name  living  now  in  England,  Profes- 
sor Dwight  replies  :  "  I  examined  carefully  the  records  and  directories  of 
many  large  towns,  and  found  nowhere,  as  a  rule,  anyone  of  the  name,  not 
even,  for  example,  in  Leeds,  where  it  was  believed  some  of  the  name 
might  still  be  found.  Any  and  all  of  those  now  living  who  could  be  found 
bearing  the  name  Dwight  were  found  in  and  about  London,"  In  the  Lon- 
don Directory  for  1878  the  following  names  of  Dwights  occur,  with  the 
adresses  given,  viz. : 

H,  Dwight,  Garret's  Farm,  Higginton,  Hertfordshire. 

M.  Dwight,  Canal  Side,  North  Church,  Great  Barkhampstead,  Hert- 
fordshire, 

F.  Dwight,  17  Holland  Grove,  Brixton. 

H.  T.  Dwight,  I  St.  James  Park,  Croydon. 

H.  Dwight,  8  Tamworth  Road,  Croydon. 

J.  Dwight,  10  Lit.  St.  Ann  Road,  Brixton. 

Dwight,  W.  H.,  May  Day  Road,  Thornton  Heath,  Croydon. 

Dwight  &  Stanley,  wheelwrights,  151  Bank  Ch.  Lane. 

Dwight,  Henry,  Crown  P.  H.,  146  St.  John  St.,  Clerkenwell,  London, 
E.  C. 

In  18 7 1  there  was  a  John  Dwight,  a  beer  retailer,  36  Lower  George 
St.,  Chelsea,  S.  W. 

IV.  Professor  Dwight  made  also,  incidentally,  in  the  reading  of  Shakes- 
peare for  his  own  pleasure,  a  discovery  of  value  concerning  one  of  the  boon 
companions  and  special  fellow-actors  of  the  great  dramatist  of  our  own  family 
name  ;  and  the  little  that  he  tells  us  of  him  is  all  that  we  know  of  his  history. 
"  Little  John  Doit,  of  Staffordshire,"  Shakespeare  speaks  of  in  "  King  Henry 
IV.,"  Part  Second,  Act  Third,  Scene  Second.  He  mentions  himself  little 
John  Doit,  of  Staffordshire,  and  black  George  Bare,  and  Francis  Pickbone, 
and  Will  Squele,  a  Cotswold  man,  and  says  of  them,  "you  had  not  four  such 
swinge-bucklers  in  all  the  inns  of  court  again ;  and  I  may  say  to  you,  we 
know  where  the  bona-robas  were,  and  had  the  best  of  them  all  at  command- 
ment."    His  boast  was  not  to  the  credit  of  their  virtue  or  refinement  of  char- 


i886.]         Recent  Discoveries  of  Traces  of  the  Dwight  Family.  ^  i 

acter,  or  even  of  manners.  It  is  not  what  is  said  of  their  riotous  behavior 
or  low  tastes  or  habits  that  gives  thein  any  interest  to  any  of  us  now.  The 
point  of  interest  and  attraction  Ues  in  the  fact  of  their  being  the  acknowl- 
edged friends  and  intimates  of  Shakespeare. 

The  facts  here  detailed,  as  newly  discovered  by  Professor  Theo.  VV, 
Dwight,  whether  by  purposed  search  for  them,  or  incidentally  and  most 
fortunately,  have  so  much  mutual  connection  and  consistency  as  to  be  en- 
tirely harmonious  in  their  nature  and  influence  with  each  other,  and  each 
part  self-explaining  in  all  its  bearings  and  relations  with  all  others.  It 
would  be  delightful,  indeed,  if  on  other  outlying  portions  of  our  connected 
and  correlated  family  history,  under  different  names  than  our  general  family 
name,  an  equally  successful  style  of  historical  analysis  of  facts  which  are 
not  yet  resolved  could  be  brought  into  effective  use  with  widely-illuminating 
power.  There  is  much  and  precious  spoil  yet  to  be  gathered  by  extended 
and  thorough  genealogical  research.  Great  is  the  wonder  to  anyone  who 
knows  the  real  richness  of  this  great  unworked  mine  of  surprising  and  de- 
lightful facts,  so  readily  discoverable  by  earnest  effort  to  find  them,  that 
any  family  possessed  of  a  history  worth  cherishing  with  reverent  and  grate- 
ful affection  can  quietly  let  a  long  past  of  splendid  purposes,  efforts,  and 
results  lie  neglected  and  forgotten,  and  even  forsaken  to  dull,  unsightly  de- 
cay, through  long  periods  of  time,  from  one  generation  to  another. 

Concerning  the  silver  tankard  now  in  the  possession  of  Mr.  Timothy 
Dwight,  of  South  Evanston,  111.  (No.  126,  I.  Dwight  Hist.,  p.  173),  as  the 
eldest  son  in  the  line  of  successive  descent  for  nine  generations  from  John 
Dwight,  of  Dedham,  the  writer  wishes  to  put  upon  permanent  record,  for 
the  benefit  of  those  who  shall  read  his  history  of  the  Dwight  Family  in  fut- 
ure years,  and  will  not  know  for  themselves  as  well  as  he  does,  what  tra- 
ditions exist  with  living  force  in  the  hearts  of  its  older  members  concern- 
ing various  statements  and  elements  of  its  history.  One  of  the  few  older 
members  of  the  little  circle  of  President  Dwight's  grandchildren  having  re- 
cently, and  unexpectedly  to  her  friends,  been  called  away  to  "  the  better 
land"  by  a  sudden  stroke  of  apoplexy,  one  most  familiar  with  the  faces, 
and  characters,  and  feelings,  and  histories  of  the  New  Haven  representa- 
tives of  the  family  in  the  preceding  generation  (Mrs.  Mary  Dwight-Lyman, 
of  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  and  previously  of  New  Haven,  Conn.,  and  more 
recently  of  Hadley,  Mass.,  No.  128,  III.  of  Dwight  History,  p.  173),  the 
writer  has  requested  her  brother,  John  W.  Dwight,  Esq.,  of  New  Haven 
(No.  130,  v.,  p.  174,  and  his  own  brother-in-law),  to  state  what  he  himself 
remembers  as  having  been  true  of  the  silver  tankard  and  the  Dwight  coat- 
of-arms  engraved  upon  it.  The  tankard  had  been  a  familiar  sight  to  him 
from  his  very  birth,  he  having  been  born  December  31,  18 17,  and  his  grand- 
father. President  Dwight,  of  Yale,  having  died  January  11,  181 7,  at  whose 
death  the  family  tankard  passed  into  the  possession  of  his  eldest  son,  Tun- 
othy  Dwight,  of  the  seventh  generation  (son  of  President  Timothy  Dwight 
and  Mary  Woolsey,  No.  118,  I.,  pp.  171-2).  Says  John  W.  Dwight,  of  New 
Haven  (his  son),  concerning  the  silver  tankard  and  coat-of-arms  engraved 
upon  it  :  "I  always  understood  from  my  father  that  his  great-grandfather, 
Colonel  Timothy  Dwight,  of  Northampton,  Mass.  (b.  in  1694,  who  m.  in 
1716,  Experience  King,  seep.  118,  Dwight  History),  sent  early  in  the 
eighteenth  century  to  England  for  the  tankard,  and  directed  that  the  Dwight 
coat-of-arms  should  be  obtained  from  the  Heralds'  College,  and  be  en- 
graved on  it.     I  always  understood  that  it  was  the  old  coat  of  the  family  as 


32  The  Lordship  and  Manor  of  Gardiner's  Island.  [Jan., 

furnished  from  older  times,  and  according  to  the  actual  symbols  and 
senses  of  the  records  of  heraldry,  and  not  made  up  at  the  time  by  any 
chance  experts  in  reading  or  representing  the  characteristic  elements  or  ex- 
pressions of  blazonry,  as  the  family  had  had  for  a  long  period  an  historic 
existence  at  that  time.  The  tankard  was  used  at  first  for  holding  flip  or  ale. 
Any  other  incidents  or  associations  ever  connected  with  its  use  are  lost 
now  by  the  recent  death  of  my  sister  Mary,  who  was  specially  fond  of 
treasuring  interesting  remembrances  of  earlier  days." 
New  Haven,  Conn.,  October  i,  1885, 

He  adds  in  a  second  letter  sent :  "This  coat-of-arms  is  the  ensign 
armorial  of  eagles  "  (covertly  controverting  an  idea  broached  casually  by 
a  leading  member  of  the  family,  that  the  blazonry  found  in  the  Dwight 
coat-of-arms  may,  in  the  absence  of  any  specific  name  or  motto  to  identify 
it,  have  been  possibly  derived  from  some  one  of  the  distinguished  families 
with  which  its  history  became  early  associated  by  marriage,  and  re-enforced 
to  its  lasting  advantage).  "  Let  no  one  imagine  that  there  can  be  any  the 
least  reason  to  doubt  whatever  the  sole  and  simple  Dwight  origin  of  our  en- 
signs armorial,  and  that  in  England,  or,  earlier  still,  in  Normandy.  Such  a 
copy  of  our  real  and  historic  coat-of-arms,  one  of  exact  truthfulness  of 
representation,  according  to  the  real  facts  of  the  case,  was  ordered  directly 
from  England,  and  paid  for  there  one  hundred  and  fifty  years  ago,  by  an 
educated  and  distinguished  member  of  the  family,  a  man  of  great  intelli- 
gence and  spirit  and  of  large  means,  Colonel  Timothy  Dwight,  of  North- 
ampton!, Mass.,  and  what  his  descendants  have  greatly  prized  in  continued 
succession  as  a  prolonged  bestowal  from  him  and  his  day  to  all  his  relatives 
in  perpetuity." 

The  article  here  presented  in  The  Record  should  be  obtained  by  the 
widely  scattered  members  of  the  family  who  possess  the  history  of  the 
Dwight  family,  each  for  himself,  who  values  the  entire  history  of  the  family 
as  such  in  America,  and  treasured  with  it  for  reference  in  future  years. 
Large  numbers  of  persons  of  various  names — Lyman,  Phillips,  Reynolds, 
Whiting,  Bacon,  Bowers,  Chapin,  Chapman,  Childs,  Collins,  Dana,  Dewey, 
Edwards,  Field,  Foster,  Hall,  Hopkins,  Hunt,  Huntington,  Kent,  King, 
Lathrop,  Loomis,  Parsons,  Partridge,  Sedgwick,  Stoddard,  Strong,  Wet- 
more,  Whitney,  Willard,  Woolsey — all  such  will,  we  are  sure,  be  much 
pleased  to  gain  the  new  information  contained  in  this  article  respecting 
their  Dwight  relationship  in  its  aboriginal  elements  and  conditions. 


THE    LORDSHIP    AND    MANOR    OF    GARDINER'S    ISLAND. 

OBSERVATIONS    FROM    BOOK    AND    FROM    AGED    PERSONS    CONCERNING    THE 
SETTLING    OF    THIS    ISLAND    ET  CETERA. 


By  John  Lyon  Gardiner,  Esq.  (Seventh  Lord  of  the  Manor). 


It  was  in  the  reign  of  Charles  i"  King  of  England  that  the  first  pro- 
prietor of  this  island  came  to  America.  It  was  in  1635  and  he  was  Engi- 
neer of  the  fort  built  at  Saybrook  by  order  of  Lords  Say  and  Sele  & 
Brook  and  others — he  was  a  friend  of  republican  government  and  Oliver 


1 886.]  The  Lordship  and  Manor  of  Gardiner's  Jslatid.  ■3'5 

Cromwell.     Whether  Lion  Gardiner  came  to  this  country  for  the  sake  o 
interest  or  for  religious,  or  civil  liberty  or  for  all  I  do  not  know. 

■  Lion  Gardiner  married  at  Woerden  a  strong  town  of  the  Low  Countries 
in  Holland — it  stands  on  the  Rhine  17  miles  south  of  Amsterdam — he  mar- 
ried Mary  daughter  of  Derike  Willemsen. 

David  the  second  owner  of  the  Island  born  at  Saybrook,  was  the  first 
white  child  born  in  that  place.  He  married  Mary  Herringman  widow  of 
the  Parish  of  Saint  Margaret,  in  the  city  of  Westminster,  England.  He  was 
22  years  old  when  married.  He  died  at  Hartford  where  he  had  gone  on 
public  business  and  was  there  buried.* 

John  the  third  owner  eldest  son  of  David  born  April  19  i66i  died  by  a 
fall  from  a  horse  at  Groton  Connecticut  1738  aged  77.  His  first 
wife  was  Mary  King  of  Oysterponds  his  second  Sarah  Coit  of  New  London 
—his  third  Abigail  Allen  f  of  Middletown — his  fourth  Elizabeth  Osborne  of 
Easthampton.  He  died  at  New  London  and  was  buried  there.  He  was 
a  hearty  active  robust  man,  generous  and  upright ;  sober  at  home  but 
jovial  abroad  and  swore  sometimes — Always  kept  his  Chaplain — he  was 
a  good  farmer  and  made  great  improvements  on  the  Island — he  made  a 
great  deal  of  money  although  a  high  liver  and  had  a  great  deal  to  do  for 
his  four  wives  connections.  He  had  an  expensive  family  of  children — he 
gave  t^iem  for  those  times  large  portions.  David  had  the  island  John 
— Jonathan  died  at  sea,  Joseph  he  gave  a  farm  at  Groton  Samuel  he  gave 
a  great  deal  of  property  to  in  Easthampton  :  a  house  and  lot  upon  the 
place  where  Captain  Abraham  Gardiner  now  lives — he  bought  for  him  all 
Minister  James  estate,  one  share  of  Montauk  twelve  acres  (now  called 
Samuel  Gardiner  lot)  for  which  he  gave  ;^5oo  as  ai)pears  by  deed.  Sam- 
uel and  his  wife  (a  Coit)  both  died  young  and  were  buried  in  Easthampton. 
He  fitted  out  his  daughters  and  gave  them  ^500  in  cash  a  piece.  Hannah 
married  Hon^'*"  John  Chandler  of  Worcester  Massachusetts,  Elizabeth  mar- 
ried Thomas  Greene  of  Boston,  where  the  family  of  that  name  continue. 
Mary  married  a  Gray.  Sarah  married  a  Treat.  Joseph  was  sick  for  a 
long  time  and  married  a  poor  girl  from  Groton  who  took  care  of  him — an 
elderly  girl  by  the  name  of  Grant.  One  of  his  sons  married  a  Saltonstall. 
Samuel  son  of  Samuel,  married  his  cousin  Abigail  Gardiner  daughter  of 
David  4*  proprietor,  and  settled  at  New  London  where  he  was  a  fa- 
mous merchant  but  failed.  He  had  children,  his  son  Samuel  lived  with 
Colonel  Abraham  Gardiner  son  of  David  (4"")  and  afterwards  with  Cap- 
tain Abraham  Gardiner. 

*  There  is  a  petition  in  the  handwriting  of  this  gentleman  which  appears  to  have  been  written  in  1684  on 
account  of  the  Assembly  (which  was  then  sittmg)  placing  Gardiner's  Island  on  to  Easthampton  in  taxes.  It 
must  have  been  presented  to  Colonel  Thomas  Dongan,  who  Augt  27th,  1683  landed  at  the  East  end  of 
Long  Island  and  summoned  an  Assembly.  The  petition  mentions  his  father  as  the  first  Englishman  who 
had  settled  in  the  Colony  of  New  York.' 

+  Abigail  Allen  widow  was  the  daughter  of  the  "  Worshippful  John  Allyn."  Her  first  husband  wag  Alex- 
ander Allen,  by  whom  she  had  son  Fitz  John  Allen. 

'  New  York  from  its  settlement  until  1664  was  in  the  hands  of  the  Dutch.  I  suppose  the  east  end  of 
Long  Island  to  have  been  then  under  Connecticut.  In  1664  that  is  4  years  after  the  restoration  of  King 
Charles  the  Second,  NicoUs,  &c.  in  four  ships  who  had  resolved  to  rendezvous  at  Gardiner's  Island  came 
over  to  attack  New  York  or  New  Amsterdam  as  it  was  then  called  which  they  did  and  took  in  1664.  In 
Deer  1664  NicoUs  and  Winthrop  &c.  determined  Long  Island  to  be  under  the  Duke  of  Vorke's  gov- 
ernment which  was  not  agreeable  to  the  Long  Island  people.  The  east  end  was  settled  from  Old  and  New 
England.  Thay  were  Presbyterians  universally  and  doubtless  as  the  Connecticut  people  were  similar  to 
them  in  religious  principles,  in  manners  and  customs,  they  wished  to  be  under  their  protection — perhaps 
the  government  of  the  Duke  ofYorke,  by  his  Governours  Nicolls  and  Lovelace  was  more  of  a  despotic  kind 
as  it  appears  by  the  history  of  those  times  that  their  will  was  law  and  the  people  had  no  part  in  making  the 
laws  by  which  they  were  governed.  I  have  been  informed  that  David  the  Second  Lord  was  one  of  the 
deputies  sent  to  Hartford  to  solicit  the  Government  there  to  take  them  under  their  jurisdiction  but  which 
they  did  not  choose  to  do.  In  1654  the  Duke  appointed  Govr  Andross  and  after  him  Coll.  Dongan  who 
landed  at  the  east  end  of  Long  Island  when  to  prevent  the  people  from  rising  in  opposition  to  him  he  prom- 
ised that  no  laws  or  rates  should  be  imposed  but  by  a  General  Assembly  which  before  had  not  been  the  Case. 

3 


■7  A  The  Lordship  and  Manor  of  Gardiner's  Island.  [Jan., 

David  4*''  eldest  son  of  John  married  Rachel  Schellinx  by  whom 
he  had  children — John  5*  owner  David  and  Abraham,  David  married 
his  cousin  daughter  of  Samuel  who  died  young.  David  was  a  large  mer- 
chant in  New  London  and  like  his  Cousin  Samuel  failed  and  died.  Ab- 
raham Was  a  farmer  in  Easthanipton,  and  married  Mary  Smith,  daughter 
of  Nathaniel  Smith.  David  as  usual  for  the  owner  kept  a  Chaplain. 
David's  second  wife  was  a  Burroughs,  widow  of  Saybrook,  she  was  a  cousin  by 
his  mothers  side,  he  would  have  married  her  when  young  but  his  parents 
objected — she  had  no  children.  David  4*  owner  was  born  January  3 
1691  died  July  4  1751  in  his  61^'  year  &  was  buried  on  Gardiner's 
Island.  Mr.  Pike  now  very  aged  tells  me  Lord  David  was  much  of  a  gen- 
tleman and  a  good  farmer — kept  about  200  head  of  cattle  40  horses 
and  more  sheep  than  I  do  (which  was  about  2800  to  3000),  has  known 
him  to  sell  700  bushels  at  8/.  Colonel  A.  Gardiner  is  much  like  his 
father,  David  4*.  Lord  David  lived  at  the  "other  house  "  and  his  son 
at  Great  Pond.  Lord  David  killed  one  year  365  ducks  and  65  geese. 
My  grandfather  John  s"*  proprietor  sold  his  cattle  in  Boston,  they  used 
to  make  a  beacon  light  on  one  of  the  hills  for  the  country  sloop  to  stop. 
John  the  5  proprietor  born  June  9*^  1714  died  May  19'^  1764  he  was 
the  eldest  son  of  David  4*  he  died  on  the  island  and  was  buried  here. 
He  was  married  May  26  1737  to  Elizabeth  Mulford  daughter  of  Mr. 
Matthew  Mulford.  He  was  23  years  old  when  he  married — he  was  not  as 
good  a  farmer  as  his  father  David — he  had  but  one  overseer  who  was 
good  for  anything  and  he  was  killed  by  a  horse.  He  paid  little  attention 
to  his  affairs  and  died  ;^33oo,  in  debt.  His  first  wife  was  a  very  fine  wom- 
an— notable.  His  second  wife  Deborah  Avery,  widow  was  of  an  easy, 
agreeable  disposition,  and  beloved  as  a  stepmother.  She  afterwards 
married  Major-General  Putnam  and  died  at  the  Highlands,  North  River, 
and  was  buried  in  the  Vault  of  Colonel  Beverly  Robinson,  She  brought 
her  children  with  her  and  they  were  educated  at  John's  expense.  The 
daughters,  Gardiner's  and  Avery's,  lived  together  in  Easthanipton  and  went 
to  school — Lydia  Pike  kept  the  house  David  was  then  in  College  in  New 
haven  and  Mary  *  who  had  acquired  many  accomplishments  at  school  in 
Boston — on  her  return  home  she  married  the  Chaplain.  David  the  6"^ 
Proprietor  born  October  8""  1738  died  September  8*  1774  in  the  36* 
year  of  his  age,  and  was  buried  on  the  Island.  He  was  the  eldest  son  of 
John  the  5*  proprietor — he  died  of  consumption  at  his  father-in-laws  the 
Reverend  Doctor  Buell's,  of  Easthanipton.  He  married  Jerusha  daughter 
of  Samuel  Buell  D.D.  and  Jerusha  Machem  both  of  Coventry  Connecticut 
— she  was  born  November  s**"  1749.  He  had  but  two  children,  John 
Lyon  the  7*  Proprietor  born  November  8"'  1770,  and  David  born  Feb'y 
2pth  iyy2.     He  was  26  years  old  when  his  father  died. 

David  6'^  when  his  father  died  took  the  bonds  and  paid  them  up  in 
two  or  three  years — he  improved  the  Island  ten  years.  He  gave  the  Island 
and  farming  utensils  to  John  Lyon,  f  and  his  Montauk  and  other  property, 
bonds  et  cetera  to  David,  to  the  amount  of  ;^i  2,000.  A  considerable  part 
of  the  bonds  were  lost  by  being  in  Continental  money. 

*  Rev.  Elijah  Blague,  a  graduate  of  Yale  College,  was  Chaplain  for  some  time. 

t  The  writer  of  the  above  died  November  22,  1816.  He  is  well-known  for  his  researches  into  the  local 
history  of  the  East  end  of  Long  Island,  to  which  he  contributed  much  curious  and  important  information. 
His  memory  and  that  of  his  wife  is  revered  and  respected  even  to  the  present  time  by  the  people  of  Suffolk 
County.  David  Johnson  Gardiner,  his  eldest  son,  was  the  last  to  receive  the  island  by  entail  as  eighth  lord,  or 
proprietor.     He  was  of  a  proud,  haughty,  imperious  disposition,  and  was  treated  universally  with  much  con- 


1 886.]  Some  Descendants  of  Robert  and  Anne  Drummond.  ^5 


SOME  DESCENDANTS  OF  ROBERT  AND  ANNE  DRUMMOND, 

OF  NEW  YORK. 

The  pedigree  of  this  Robert  in  Scotland  we  have  not  been  able  to 
ascertain.  We  only  have  the  old  family  tradition  that  he  was  "  sent  here 
by  the  Rebellion,"  and  his  estate  there  was  "confiscated."  That  rebellion, 
judging  from  the  data  of  his  age  and  first  recorded  citizenshi])  in  New 
York,  would  have  been  the  one  aroused  by  that  popish  tyrant,  James  II., 
of  England,  to  whose  rescripts  so  many  Protestants  in  that  country  would 
not  yield.  His  only  wife  known  on  our  shores,  nee  Anne  Evetts,  but  the 
widow  of  Richard  Hall  when  he  married  her,  was  doubtless  a  native  of 
England,  as  her  father,  James  Evetts,  one  of  the  incorporators  and  first  war- 
dens of  Trinity  Church,  this  city,  cannot  be  traced  back  with  us  to  an 
earlier  date  than  about  1690,  and  this  daughter  married  Mr.  Hall  in  1703. 
The  family  have  been  found  to  be  originally  from  St.  Botolph's  Parish, 
Bishops  Gate,  London.  From  Mr.  Edsall's  valuable  record  of  Lieutenant- 
Governor  John  Berry  of  New  Jersey,  in  this  magazine  last  year,  we  find 
several  facts  in  this  connection,  not  known  before  to  the  present  writer. 
One  was  the  paternity  of  Richard  Hall's  mother,  the  widow  of  Mayor 
Noel,  at  the  time  of  his  marriage,  shown  by  Mr.  Edsall  to  have  been  a 
daughter  of  George  Berry.  Another  was  the  names  of  Mrs.  Hall's  two 
daughters,  viz.,  Elizabeth  and  Anne,  which,  with  those  of  their  husbands, 
William  Patterson  and  James  Martin  respectively,  both  citizens  of  New 
Jersey,  furnish  us  with  a  clew  to  an  ancient  kinship,  long-sought  for  in 
vain.  These  last-mentioned  facts  negative  entirely  the  genealogical 
hypothesis  that  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Hazard,  the  wife  of  Nathaniel  Hazard, 
the  old  New  York  merchant,  and  an  ancestress  of  the  distinguished  Dela- 
field  family  of  this  city,  was  a  daughter  of  Robert  Drummond.  For  it  is 
utterly  unsupposable  that  Mrs.  Anne  Drummond  would  name  another 
daughter  Elizabeth.  Of  her  Patterson  descendants,  if  any,  we  have  no 
knowledge  ;  but  of  those  in  the  Martin  line  a  little,  which  we  desire  here 
to  record.  Rachel  Martin,  a  grand-daughter  of  James  Martin,  married  for 
her  first  husband,  Colonel  Philip  Johnston,  an  eminent  patriot  officer,  who 
was  killed  in  the  battle  of  Brooklyn,  in  1776,  and  as  it  is  said  on  his 
birth-day.  Her  second  husband  was  Judge  Bray,  of  New  Brunswick,  N.  J. 
Colonel  Johnston,  of  General  Heard's  Brigade  (see  General  Stryker's 
Roster  of  New  Jersey's  soldiers  in  the  Revolutionary  War),  was  a  man  of 
culture  and  great  excellence  of  character.  His  father,  a  large  land-pro- 
prietor in  Somerset  County,  N.  J.,  had  sent  him  to  Princeton  College,  but  at 
the  breaking  out  of  the  French  War  he  joined  the  army  as  a  youthful  vol- 
unteer, and  returned  with  the  laurels  of  a  brave  soldier.  The  first  year 
of  the  Revolution  he  again  entered  the  field  in  his  country's  cause,  and 
his  children  remembered  his  kneeling  at  their  bedside  when  about  to  "leave 

sideration.  This  was  so  while  he  was  at  school  and  at  Yale  College.  In  his  feelings  he  was  a  born  aristocrat. 
He  died  young,  unmarried  and  intestate,  and  the  manorial  property  then  descended  to  his  two  brothers  and 
sister  equally.  They  transferred  their  shares  to  the  oldest,  John  Griswold  Gardmer,  who  succeeded  as  nmth 
proprietor.  John  G.  was  of  quite  a  different  disposition.  He  was  kind,  generous  and  affectionate,  but  ex- 
travagent  and  wasteful.  He  lived  like  a  lord,  and  impaired  his  estate  very  much.  On  his  death  in  1861, 
unmarried  and  intestate  also,  the  island  again  descended  to  his  brother  and  sister.  Mrs.  Sarah  Diodati 
Thompson  transferred  her  rights  to  the  late  Hon.  Samuel  B.  Gardiner,  who  became  the  tenth  proprietor. 
He  was  a  refined,  unostentatious  gentleman  of  the  old  school,  and  died  much  respected  January  5,  1882. 
The  island  descended  to  David  Johnson  Gardiner,  as  eleventh  proprietor,  but  has  since  come  to  Colonel 
John  Lyon  Gardiner,  the  present  and  twelfth  lord  of  this  ancient  manor. 


•26  Some  Descendants  of  Robert  and  Anne  Drumniond.  [Jan., 

his  beautiful  home  never  to  return.  It  is  a  family  tradition  that  Colonel 
Johnston  disapproved  of  the  plan  of  the  battle  at  Flatbush,  and  that  to 
the  orders  of  the  commanding  officer,  General  Sullivan,  his  reply  was, 
"  I  will  obey  you,  sir,  but  it  will  be  death." 

A  Hessian  officer's  record  of  this  fatal  engagement  maligns  the  memory 
of  this  noble  patriot  by  reporting  that  "a  Captain  Johns"  attempted  to 
slay  covertly,  after  surrendering,  the  soldier  that  captured  him,  who  forthwith 
bayonetted  his  prisoner.  But  enough  is  known  of  Colonel  Johnston  as  a 
Christian  gentleman  and  true  soldier  to  exculpate  his  memory  from  this 
base  charge.  And  there  can  be  no  doubt  that  he  honored  to  the  last  the 
motto  of  his  ancient  Scotch  Border  family,  Nunquam  non  paratus. 

One  of  Colonel  Johnston's  daughters  married  a  Lloyd,  and  another  a 
Scudder,  a  lawyer,  of  Monmouth  County,  N,  J.  He  was  the  ancestor  of 
the  heroic  American  missionary  band  of  that  name.  Another  daughter, 
Miss  Betsey  Johnson,  remained  single,  and  died  at  a  venerable  age.  She 
often  visited  her  relatives  in  old  Elizabeth  Town,  N.  J.,  which  was  the 
family  residence  of  her  mother's  cousin,  Colonel  Edward  Thomas,  a 
prominent  Revolutionary  officer. 

His  mother  was  Sarah  Drummond,  a  daughter  of  Robert  and  Anne 
Drummond,  who  removed  from  New  York  to  Elizabeth  Town,  N.  J.,  in 
about  1 714-15,  and  resided  there  for  a  short  period.  Their  son — or 
grandson — Robert,  was  for  many  years  a  merchant  and  extensive 
"shipper"  in  Acquackanock,  N.  J.,  on  the  Passaic  River,  now  called 
Passaic.  Here  he  remained,  and  had  his  family  residence  for  many 
years.  In  the  register  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  of  that  town  we 
find  the  following  record,  obtained  through  the  courtesy  of  William 
Nelson,  Esq.,  of  Paterson,  a  member  of  the  New  Jersey  Historical 
Society,  "as  entered  by  Dominie  David  Marinus:  'Married,  April  i,  1759, 
R.  Drummond,  bachelor,  with  Jennie  Vreeland,  maiden,  both  of  our 
church.'  "  "  He  lived,"  says  Mr.  Nelson,  "on  the  old  Weasel  road,  about 
two  miles  from  Passaic  city.  Their  children  on  the  church  record  were 
Mary,  born  June  29,  1760;  Robert,  born  1762  (one  of  whose  sponsors 
was  a  Mary  Drummond,  probably  an  aunt),  and  Sarah,  named  from 
another  aunt,  Mrs.  Sarah  Thomas.  This  Robert  Drummond  was  several 
times  sent  to  Trenton  as  an  Assemblyman,  and  in  1776  was  a  prominent 
member  of  the  State  Rovolutionary  Congress  there  holden.  But  a  year  or 
two  later  he  declared  himself  a  loyalist,  raised  a  company  with  the  rank  of 
a  major,  with  which  he  joined  the  Southern  British  Army.  But  it  is  said 
that  very  few  of  them  survived  to  return  to  the  North.  At  the  close  of 
the  war  Major  Drummond  went  to  England,  and  there  died.  His  estate 
was  confiscated,  and  his  family,  remaining  in  New  Jersey,  reduced  to  poverty. 
But  by  the  influence  of  his  kinsman,  Colonel  Thomas,  the  principal  portion 
was  restored  to  them. 

For  other  particulars,  see  Gordon's  "  History  and  Gazetteer  of  New 
Jersey,"  and  the  "  History  of  American  Loyahsts."  Several  respectable 
descendants  of  Major  Drummond  are  now  living  near  the  City  of  Passaic, 
one  in  Paterson,  and  a  great-grandson,  Mr.  Peter  Allen,  at  Monachie, 
Bergen  County,  N.  J.  His  descendant  in  Paterson  possesses  a  portrait  of 
this  ancestor,  taken  in  London,  1784,  eii  pastilla,  which  represents  him 
attired  in  the  scarlet  coat,  with  blue  facings,  and  buff  vest  of  a  British 
officer.  His  farm  at  the  Ponds,  near  Pompton,  confiscated  in  1778,  was 
sold  to  Peter  Ward,  of  Saddle  River." 


1 886.]  Genealogical  History.  TjI 

The  Thomas  family  have  been  warmly  patriotic,  both  in  the  War  of 
Independence  and  that  for  the  Union.  Captain  Edmund  Thomas,  son  of 
the  Colonel,  was  distinguished  for  his  valor  in  Revolutionary  battles.  His 
nephew,  the  late  General  George  Cummings  Thomas,  of  Washington,  a 
veteran  of  the  Seminole  War,  was  the  military  commandant  of  Washing- 
ton City  during  the  war  of  the  RebelUon,  and  took  the  oaths  of  allegiance 
of  all  enrolled  for  service  in  the  armies  of  the  Union  on  his  little  pocket 
Bible,  and  among  them  that  of  the  late  illustrious  Ulysses  S.  Grant.  This 
memorable  sacred  relic  is  carefully  preserved  in  the  library  of  his  brother, 
William  W.  Thomas,  Esq.,  a  resident  of  Elizabeth,  N.  J.,  and  a  Custom 
House  broker  of  long  standing  in  the  City  of  New  York.  Many  of  other 
names  in  various  parts  of  the  country,  adorning  different  professions  or 
social  life,  at  the  present  day,  are  also  in  the  same  worthy  descent.  One 
of  the  number,  a  former  respected  lawyer  of  this  city,  is  Richard  Goodman, 
Esq.,  of  Lowell,  Mass.  The  late  Dr.  William  Alfred  Elmas,  U.S.A.,  a 
distinguished  surgeon,  was  a  great-grandson  of  Robert  and  Anne  Drum- 
mond,  whose  record  has  now  been  given.  William  Hall. 

New  York,  October  9,  1885. 


GENEALOGICAL  HISTORY. 


The  following  communication  is  from  the  pen  of  an  eminent  scholar 
and  writer  of  Germany,  Dr.  Von  H.  Schramm,  a  corresponding  member 
of  the  Genealogical  and  Biographical  Society  of  New  York.  The  merit 
and  chief  interest  of  the  article  is  its  marked  republican  spirit,  coming  from 
the  pen  of  a  born  aristocrat,  who  expects  to  visit  the  United  States  during 
the  present  winter. 

"  The  Constitution  of  the  United  States,"  writes  Dr.  Schramm,  "  de- 
clares the  use  of  titles  of  nobility  incompatible  with  the  quality  of  an 
American  citizen,  and  thus  prevents  all  official  ranking  of  people  as  the 
elite  of  human  kind.  There  is  only  one  way  for  American  families  to  gain 
hereditary  social  prominence,  and  that  is  by  the  continuity  of  their  devotion 
to  the  common  weal  and  of  their  maintenance  of  a  high  standard  of  honesty  ; 
these  means  alone  obtain  the  enduring  respect  of  the  people  and  their 
courteous  deference  for  true  merit.  Comparisons  are  odious,  and  we  do 
not  intend  to  discuss  the  respective  merits  of  the  European  and  American 
systems,  but,  if  '  all  the  world's  a  stage,'  we  may  be  permitted  to  remark 
that  in  acting  on  it  Europeans  appear,  by  their  use  of  courtesy  titles  of  no- 
bility, as  it  were,  to  follow  the  custom  of  the  ancient  classic  stage,  and  to 
wear  masks  of  their  parts,  while  Americans  believe  the  characters  should 
be  recognizable  without  such  outward  sign. 

"  The  facility  for  arising  from  the  proletariat  to  distinction,  which  Amer- 
ican institutions  offer,  often  leads  successful  men  to  say  that  it  *is  quite 
indifferent  who  a  person's  parents  were,  and  even  to  boast  of  their  ignorance 
of  their  family  history,  as  if  that  were  a  republican  virtue  : 

"  '  Stemmata  quid  faciunt,  quid  prodest,  Pontice,  longo 
Sanguine  censeri,  pictosque  ostendere  vultus  majorum  ? ' 

"  Looking  closely  we,  however,  soon  discover  that  such  a  novus 
homo  and  his  descendants  anxiously  guard  the  records  of  their  own  pres- 
ent achievements,  and  transmit  them  like  treasured  heirlooms  to  their  fam- 


?8  Genealogical  History.  [Jan., 

ilies,  and  thus  virtually  prove  themselves  stanch  adherents  of  the  very 
principle  of  which  they  affect  to  make  light.  Pride  of  descf  nt  from  ances- 
tors who  have  generously  served  their  country  and  who  have  honestly 
accomplished  their  duty  m  their  private  relations  is  certainly  as  justifiable  as 
pride  in  personal  success  in  accumulating  wealth  or  in  other  achievements. 

"  History  is  at  once  the  foundation  and  the  condition  of  our  moral  and 
political  development.  Why  should  we  consider  the  acts  of  men  alone 
worthy  of  attention  in  their  relation  to  the  common  interest,  and  judge 
them  uninteresting  in  their  influence  on  the  destiny  and  the  fortunes 
of  their  direct  descendants  ?  If  the  examples  of  great  and  good  men 
are  to  incite  us  to  make  our  lives  sublime,  may  not  the  history  of  the  past 
vicissitudes  of  our  own  family  serve  to  direct  our  steps  in  the  future,  and 
the  remembrance  of  how  our  own  ancestors  remained  true  to  great  princi- 
ples and  preserved  their  names  unsullied,  per  varies  casus — per  tot  dis- 
criminareram,  be  the  most  powerful  of  all  incentives  to  keep  us  in  the 
path  of  virtue  ?  Deeply  rooted  in  the  hearts  of  the  people  there  lives  an 
interest  for  the  past,  and  a  desire  to  place  themselves  in  relation  with  the 
generations  which  have  preceded  us.  Even  he  who  is  ignorant  of  his 
family  history  when  he  reads  of  the  past  involuntarily  pictures  to  himself 
how  his  sires  may  have  felt  and  acted  in  the  momentous  questions  of  their 
times.  How  much  keener  must  he  enter  into  the  spirit  of  the  past  who 
actually  knows  how  his  ancestors  were  influenced  under  the  circumstances. 

"The  representative  families  of  America  are  unable,  with  few  excep- 
tions, to  trace  their  early  origin  to  noble  extraction,  but  they  have  almost 
all  occupied  distinguished  positions  from  the  foundation  of  the  country, 
and  the  records  of  their  family  history  are  such  that  they  will  bear  the  light 
of  day.  On  the  continued  purity  of  these  records  rests  their  claim  to  dis- 
tinction, and  this  certainly  appears  a  more  solid  foundation  than  the  more 
or  less  fortuitous  possession  of  an  hereditary  title  accorded  for  some  act  of 
real  or  fictitious  merit,  which  constitutes  the  same  claim  to  nobility  of  so 
many  of  the  titled  families  of  to-day.  In  republican  Switzerland  it  has 
long  been  the  custom  for  prominent  families  to  preserve  their  history  in 
print,  and  such  monographs  are  frequent  among  the  Calvinists  of  Geneva. 
Recent  publications  show  that  they  are  also  becoming  naturalized  in  Amer- 
ica. In  the  United  States  society  shows  its  repugnance  to  submit  to  the 
tyranny  and  corruption  of  plutocratic  rule  by  the  prominence  accorded  in 
the  public  service  to  the  descendants  of  the  early  patriot  statesmen  and 
soldiers.  These  bearers  of  honored  names  are  the  natural  guardians  of  the 
essence  of  American  nationality,  and  they  form  an  intellectual  nucleus  of 
pronounced  individuality  around  which  the  most  diverse  elements  can  form  to 
one  homogeneous  and  original  race.  Among  the  ever-frequent  changes  of 
American  life  the  people  see  with  satisfaction  that  certain  families  retain 
their  well-earned  positions  and  contribute  the  element  of  stability  to  so- 
ciety, vmltosque per  annos  stat  fortujia  donms  et  avi  nutnerantur  avorum. 

"  English  writers  frequently  assume  that  the  Americans  stand  to-day  in 
a  nearer  degree  of  relationship  to  the  English  than  to  any  other  nation, 
concluding,  no  doubt,  that  the  use  of  the  same  language  must  make  the 
nations  kinsmen  and  alike  in  feeling.  This  is  a  manifest  error.  The  his- 
tory of  the  representative  families  of  America  is  rich  in  striking  illustra- 
tions of  the  fact  that  the  National  character  is  an  original  formation,  to 
which  various  sources  have  contributed,  and  by  no  means  a  recast  from  an 
English  mold.    The  stripes  in  the  American  flag  were  selected  as  an  emblem 


i886.]  Ancient  New  York  Tombstones.  ^n 

of  the  six  nationalities  by  whom  the  States  had  chiefly  been  peopled,  and 
they  symbolize  their  equal  degree  of  relationship  to  the  new-born  nation, 

"  The  foregoing  is  a  summary  of  some  general  reflections  upon  reading 
the  biography  of  Colonel  John  Bayard,  which  Gen.  Jas.  Grant  Wilson  se- 
lected this  year  for  his  anniversary  address  before  the  New  York  Genea- 
logical and  Biographical  Society,  a  subject  which  receives  additional  inter- 
est from  the  fact  that  a  Bayard  is  at  present  the  head  of  the  American 
Cabinet  as  Secretary  of  State,  and  that  Dr.  Charles  W.  Baird  has  just  pub- 
lished the  '  History  of  the  Huguenot  Emigration  to  America,'  showing  what 
an  important  factor  the  Huguenots  have  been  in  the  formation  of  Am- 
erican society,  for  the  Bayards,  like  so  many  other  distinguished  families, 
are  of  Huguenot  descent." 


ANCIENT  NEW  YORK  TOMBSTONES. 

In  an  autumn  afternoon  ramble  with  our  vice-president,  as  we  were 
walking  along  the  banks  of  the  East  River  opposite  Sixty-sixth  Street,  we 
came  upon  a  little  cluster  of  graves.  From  the  tombstones,  more  or  less 
dilapidated,  which  marked  these  "  last  homes,"  we  carefully  copied  the 
following  inscriptions  in  the  private  burial-place,  which  is  one  of  many  to 
be  found  scattered  along  the  East  River  shore  of  Manhattan  Island.  It  is 
on  what  is  known  as  the  Schermerhorn  estate,  and  when  the  property  was 
sold  some  sixty  years  since  to  Peter  Schermerhorn,  the  former  owners  re- 
served the  right  of  burial,  a  right,  however,  which  it  is  believed  was  never 
afterward  exercised. 

In  In 

Memory  of  Memory 

John  Hardenbrook,  of 

Obit  Ann  Hardenbrook, 

5th  August,  1803,  Relict  of 

Aetet  77.  John  Hardenbrook, 


Obiit  6th  March, 

In  1817, 

Memory  of  Aged  95  years. 
Mary  Adams, 

Who  departed  this  life,  

5th  April,   1822, 

Aged  72  years.  In 

Memory  of 

In  John, 

Memory  of  Son  of  Robert  and  Susan  Thompson, 

Sarah  Carr,  Who  departed  this  life, 

Who  departed  this  life,  iSth  September,  1813, 

2d  April,  1 82 1,  Aged  i  year  and  6  months. 

Aged  73  years.  Also 

In  memory  of 

In  memory  of  James  Lawrence, 

Maria  Bass.  Son  of  Robert  and  Susan  Thompson, 

Who  departed  this  life, 

In  memory  of  12th  August,  1819, 

John  Bass.  Aged  3  years  and  9  months. 

Of  these  slabs,  five  were  upright  and  uninjured,  and  two  were  prostrate 
and  broken.  There  were  also  in  close  proximity  to  the  above,  numerous 
broken  stones,  indicating  that  they  had  formerly  marked  other  now  forgot- 
ten and  neglected  graves.  J.  G.  W. 

New  York,  November,  1885. 


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RECORDS  OF    THE   REFORMED  DUTCH  CHURCH    IN   THE 
CITY  OF  NEW  YORK.— Baptisms. 


(Continued  from  Vol.  XVI.,  p.  94,  of  The  Record.) 


A"  i7n. 
May  6. 


10. 


27. 

Jliny  I. 
3- 

(339) 
Juny  3- 

27. 
14. 


4. 

8. 


OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

Joseph  Waldrom,  Benjamin. 
Antje  Woedert. 

A  d  o  1  p  h  de  Groof,  Rachel. 

Rachel  Goederus. 
Dirk  Con5>n,  Rachel  Philippics. 

Andriesse. 
Abraham  Van  Gelder,  Harmaniis. 

Catlyntje  Post. 

Aarnout  Schermer-  Catharina. 

hoorn,  M  a  r  y  t  j  e 

Beekman. 
Jacob     Swaan,    Dirk. 

Dirkje. 

Hendrikus  Kermer,  Nicolaas. 

Jaquemyntje  Rave- 

ste3>n. 
Joost  Laning,  Geertje  Geertje. 

Romeyn. 
H  e  n  d  r  i  k   Franse,  Anna. 

Anna  Maria  Sippe. 

W  e  s  s  e  1  V.  Norden,  Anna. 

Jaquemyntje  van 

Couwenhoven. 
John   Haldron,   Cor-  Luykas. 

nelia  v.  Tienhove. 
Grietje  Van  Oort.        Margrietje. 


Pieter  Wesselse,  Elizabeth. 

Anna  Oosterhave. 
Johannes  Buys,  Neel-  Johannes. 

tje  Claas. 

Samuel  Bayard,  Mar-  ^  i 

•^       V.    ^   Samuel 
gareta    van    Cort- 

lant. 


Jacobus. 


Isaac    Fonda,    Alida  Elizabeth. 

Lancing. 
Johannes  Rykman,  Tobias. 

Catharina  Kip. 
Jan  Willex,  Margreta  Margrietje. 

Douw. 


GETUVGEN. 

Ruthgerd  Waldrom,  Mar- 

ytje  Waldrom,  hiiys  v. 

van  Fredrik  Willemse. 
Gerret   Schuyler,    Barent 

Bon,  Marytje  Goederus. 
Frans  W  e  n  n  a  m,  Maria 

Marius. 
Philip  Daly,  Cattyntje 

Potman,    huys   v:    van 

Cornelus  Post. 
JohannesBeekman,  Aaltje 

Beekman,  s:  h:  vrouw. 

Hendrikus  van  Gelder, 
Catharina  Keteltas. 

Davidt  Kermer,  Judith 
Raveste)>n. 

Benjamin    Oldes,    Aaltje 

Schars,  s:  h:  v^ 
Sjaert    Olfertz,    Dorathe 

Grienham,  s:  h:  v. 

Theophilus  Pels,  Cath- 
lyntje  de  Foreest. 

Samuel    PhiHpz,    Tr)>ntje 

van  Thienhove. 
Willem  Broiiwer,  Marytje, 

s:  h^:  V'. 
Balthazar  de  Hart,  Eliza- 
beth van  Dyk. 
Isaac  Stoutenbiirg,  Anna- 

tje  Van  den  Biirg.  • 
Steven  de  Lance,  Maria 

IJayard   Wed:  van  B^' 

Bayard. 
Jacobus  van  Cortlant, 

Susanna  Brokhorst,  h. 

V.  v.,  A'  Brok.,  Maria 

Brokhorst  j.  dochter. 
Hdybert  van  den  Berg, 

Marytje  Lancing. 
Tobias  Rykman,  Samdel 

Kip  &  Margreta,  s.  h.  v. 
Willem  Appel,   Marretje 

Bougran. 


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A°  171 1.  OUDERS.  HINDERS, 

July  II.  Andries  Meyer,  Jn'.,  Louwrens. 

Geertje  Wessels. 
15.  Thomas  Dalje,  Maria  Willem. 

Dalje. 

Philippus    van    Bos-  Harmanus. 
sem,  Margrietje 
Willems. 
Cornelus  Smits,  Hes-  Susanna. 

ter  Visscher. 
Frans  Reyerse,  Antje  Theiinis. 
Dye. 
22.  Johannes  de  Peister,  Catharina. 

Anna  Banker. 
Aiig^stfis  I.     William    M  a  d  d  o  x,  William. 

Zusanna  Eradjor. 
g.  Johannes  Van  Herts-  Elizabeth, 

berge,    Catharina 
Walters. 
James  Water,  Mary tje  Marytje. 
Aartse. 
10.  Jacobus  Moene,  Martinus. 

Grietje  Dirks. 

Jan  Hibon,  Catharina  Barent. 

Cebering. 
Ruthgerd    Waldrom,  William. 

Debora  Pel. 
Elias   EUessen,   Sara  Hendrik. 

Peers. 
Michiel    Stevens,  Elizabeth. 

Rejertje  Mol. 
Casparus   Blank,  Elizabeth. 

Aginietje  Post. 
Johannes  Vreden-  Elizabeth. 

burg,   Antje  Mon- 

tagne. 
Samuel    De,    Celitje  Samliel. 

Salomons. 
Jasper  Hood,  Tryntje  Thomas. 

Luykas. 
Abraham  Van  Vlek,  Cathalina. 

Maria  Kip. 
Boilwt  W  e  s  s  e  1  s  e,  Frans. 

Maria  Brestede. 
Septemb.  2.    Jurian  Witvelt,  Maria  Catharina. 

ten  YKff" 
Abraham  Vreden-  Abraham. 

biirg,  Isabella  Par- 
sell,  obyt. 


(340) 
10. 

12. 
19. 


26. 


31- 


GETUYGEN. 

Louwerens  Wessels e, 

Catharina  van  Hoorn. 
Benja™  Rivers  «S:  Barent 

de    Foreest,    Cornelia 

Mehoon. 
Jan  de  Lamontanje,  Wy- 

burg  V.  Bossem. 

Willem    Appel,   Apalony 

Eckeson. 
Jacob  Bratt,  Aefje,  s.  h^  v'. 

Philip  Schuyler,  Catha- 
rina de  Peister. 

Willem  Roseboom,  Sara 
ten  Yk. 

Robberd  Walters,  Alette 
Douwe. 

Thomas  Jemmeson,  Mar- 
re  tje  Aarts,  Wed\ 

Frans  Van  Dyk,  Antje 
Van  Deventer. 

Barent  Hibon,  Sara,  s:  h' 

vroiiw. 
Pieter   Brestede,    Anna 

Paretre. 
Hendrik    EUessen,   Mar- 

retje  v.  Heyninge. 
Willem    Hyer,    Ariaantje 

de  Wint. 
Abraham   van  G  e  1  d  e  r, 

Catl)>ntje,  s.  h.  v'. 
Gerret  de  Graw,  Dorathe 

Hyer,  s:  h^  v'. 

Frans  Franse,  Jannetje 
Salomons. 

Jacobus  Goelet,  Catha- 
rina Wendall. 

Jacobus  Kip,  Catlyntje 
de  Lanoy. 

Frans  Wesselse,  Tryntje 
Jans,  s:  h^  v^ 

James  Lee,  Catharina 
Witvelt. 

John  Parcell,  Sara  Mon- 
tagne. 


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A*  1711. 


[Jan., 


OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

5.  JanVanVoorn,  Johannes. 

Judith  Slott. 

9.  Alexander    F  e  n  i  x,  Cornelia. 

Hester  Van  Vorst. 
Pieter    Post,    Catha-  Adriaan. 

rina  Beekman. 
Ed^iard  B 1  a  g  g,  Jo-  Ediiard. 

hanna  Vickers. 

'Claas  Bogert,  Grietje  Johannes. 
Conselje. 
12.  Mangel  Janse  R  o  1,  Sara. 

Antje   Hendrix 
Valk. 
Barnardlis  Smith,  An-  Johanna. 

netje  Cglevelt. 
WillemKronijWyntje  Isaac. 
Rosa. 

(341) 

Septemb:  16.  Jan    Ellem,  Johanna  Elizabeth. 

Aldrom. 
23.  Cornelus    R  o  mm  e,  Rachel. 

Marytje  Kierstede. 


Dirk  Egbertse,  Mar-  Christina. 

grietje  Feller. 
FredrikFyn,Jannetje  Jannetje. 

vant  Zandt. 
Pieter  Burger,  Catha-  Daniel. 

rina  Henyon. 
John  Yyerey,    Eliza-  John. 

beth  Layd. 


30. 


GETUYCEN. 

Fictoor  Ecker,  Annetje 
Elsewarth,  h.  v.  van 
Josias  Creeger. 

Willem  Echt,  Marytje 
Spratt. 

Johannes  Post,  Antje 
Stemets. 

Samuel  CIouws,  Cherrety 
Smith,  h,  V.  van  Jo- 
hannes Edsall. 

George  Willes,  Annetje 
Conselje,  s:  h:  v. 

Samuel  Filipz,  Elsje  van 
Pelt. 

Coenraat  ten  Yk,  Sara  v. 

Vorst,  s:  h:  v'. 
Lorwies  v.  Niewenhiiyse, 

Aefje,  s,  h^  vrouw. 

Abraham  Rochel,  Catha- 

rina  Buys. 
Hans  Kierstede,  J', 

Rachel   Kierstede, 
Wd^ 
Jacob  Brat,  Aaltje  Riem- 

ers. 
Abraham  v.  Deurse,  Ca- 

tharina  vant  Zant. 
Johannes  Hennejon,  An- 

nek  Blom. 
Abram  Wendel,  &  Tho- 
mas Statom,  Catharina 

Wendel. 
Dirk  Kook,   Susanna,  s: 

h"  v'. 


Ocktob:  7. 


14. 
17. 


D  e  n  y  s   Woertman,  Samiiel. 

Margrietje  Beek- 
man. 
Anthony    de    Mill,  Anthony. 

Marytje  Provoost. 
Richmond  Wytton,  Elsje. 

Elsje  Go  sen  s  v. 

Oort. 
John   Wide,    Geertje  Annetje. 

Wessels. 
Stephanus     Boeken-  Sara. 

hove,  Annatje 

Hoist. 
Wessel  Wessels  e,  Belitje. 

Marytje  ten  Yk. 
Joseph  Houwer,  Hester  d^  2  Isaac  de  Mill,  Sara,  s:  h 

Christina  de  Mill.    July  gebo'.         v' 


Isaac   de    Mill,    Barbara 

Prevoost. 
Willem    Appel,    Marytje 

Brouwers. 

Frans  Garbrantse,  Eliza- 
beth Wessels. 

Albartus  Hoist,  Aaltje,  s. 
h=  v^ 

Coenraat  ten  Yk,  Tryntje 
Jans. 


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A°  1711, 


17. 


20. 


24. 


(342) 
Oktob.  24. 


Novemb:  6. 


14. 


18. 


30- 
Decemb.  5. 


OUDERS. 

Jeremiah  Borresh, 

Cornelia  Ekkeson. 
Johannes  Brouwer, 

Marytje  Lam. 
Willem  Provoost, 

Aefje  Exveen. 
Joseph    Lush,   Maria 

Janse  Jonker. 
Gerret  van  Laar,  Jan- 

netje  Streddels. 
Larnmert  van  D  y  k, 

M  arre  tje  Hoog- 

lant. 
Daniel  Lietiwis, 

Geerje  Bradjor. 
F  r  e  d  r  i  k  Woerten- 

dyk,  D  i  e  V  e  r  t  j  e 

Quakkenbos. 
Johannes    Tuck, 

Antje  Cornells. 

Philip  Van  Cortlant, 
Catharina  de  Peys- 
ter. 

Daniel  Judevoor,  En- 
geltje  Cornelus. 

Willem  van  de  Water, 
Aefje  Ringo. 

Burger  Davids,  Mary- 
tje Romme. 

Davidt  Cosaac, 
Styntje  Joris. 

Christoffel  Beekman, 
Marytje  Lanoy. 

Cornelus  Turk,  Eliza- 
beth van  Schaik. 

Matheus  Bensing,  Ca- 
tharina Provoost. 


KINDERS. 

GETUYGEN. 

Isaac. 

Isaac  Swits,  J  a  n  n  e  t  j  e 

Swits. 

Mathys. 

Alexander    Lam,    Aaltje 

Brouwers. 

Cornelia. 

Samuel  Provoost,  Catha- 

rina de  Water. 

Maria. 

Thomas   Statham,   Maria 

Machkraft. 

Christoffel. 

Christoffel  v.  Laar,  Catha- 

rina Streddels. 

Jenneke. 

Johannes    Hooglant,    S'., 

Jenneke  Andries,  s.  h. 

Daniel. 

V  • 

Benjamin    Bill,    Cornelia 

Narrewood. 

Reynier. 

Benjamin    Quakkenbos, 

Claasje,  s.  h^  v^ 

Aaltje. 

Stephanus. 

Willem. 

Margrietje. 

Antje. 

Johannis. 

Magdalena. 

Belitje. 

Jonathan. 


Egbert  v.   Bossen,  Hendrik. 

Elizabeth  Bensing. 
Hendrik^  Vonk,    Ca- Lucretia. 

tharina  Hegeman. 
Willem    Liewis,   Ma-  Wilhelmiis. 

ria  v.  Bommel. 
Hendrik  Brevoort,  Hendrik^s. 

Jaquemyntje  Boke. 
Harmanus     Bensing,  Catlyntje. 

Aaltje  Bickers. 
Evert  Pels,  Grietje  v.  Rachel. 

Deurse. 


Pouwelus    Tuck,    Aaltje, 

h  u  y  s  v"^    V.    Cornelis 

Klaase. 
Coll.  Abrah:  de  Peyster, 

•Geertruyd  van  Cortlant, 

Wed^ 
Willem  Krom,   Elizabeth 

Uytenbogert. 
Johannes     Pouwelse, 

Geertrtiy  Ringo. 
Sjoert  Olfertz,  Catharina 

Davids. 
Pieter  Jacobse,  Rebecka, 

s.  h=  V'. 
Gerardus  Beekman,  Mag- 
dalena, s:  h^  v'. 
Johannes  Bogert,  Claasje 
■  Van  Schaik. 
Davidt    Provoost  Jonath 

Z,,    Marytje    Provoost 

j,  docht: 
Samson  Bensen,  Marretje 

Bougran. 
Adriaan  Hegeman,  Alida 

Vonk. 
AarnhoutSchermerhoorn, 

Sara  Elsewarth. 
Jan  W  i  1 1  e  m  s  e  Rome, 

Marytje  Boke. 
Robberd  Bense,  Cornelia, 

s:  h''  v". 
Willem  Elsewarth,  Eliza- 
beth Pels. 


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[Jan. 


A"  1711. 


12. 
16. 

(343) 
19. 


23- 


25. 


26. 


January  i, 
6. 


OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

Thomas  Powel,  Jan-  Elizabeth, 
netje  Waldrom. 

Isaac  Brat,  Dievertje  Barent. 

Wessels. 
Thomas  Robberdz,  Jannnetje. 

Geerje  Liewis. 
Gerret   Burger,  Pieter. 

Saartje  Reyers. 

Thomas  Slow,  Eliza-  Margareta. 

beth  Wessels. 
J  a  c  o  b  ti  s  Provoost,  Abraham. 

Marytj  e  Van  d' 

Poel. 
William  Neiiton,  Eli-  William. 

zabeth  Lee. 
Johannes  Peek, 

Tryntje  Hellaker. 


Johannes 
Gysbert. 

Elizabeth. 


Gerret  Harssing,  En- 
geltje  Burgers. 

Albartiis  Coenradus  Jozeph 
Bosch,    Maria  Hendri- 
Jeedts.  ktis. 

William  Play.  William. 

Susanna  Fyn.  Margery. 


A    1712. 
Stephanus     Richard,  Pieter. 

Maria  Van  Brugh. 
John  Tantonn,   Jen-  Elizabeth. 

neke     Harden- 

broek. 
Anthony    Caar,    An-  EHzabeth. 

netje  H6yke. 
John   Cure,   Gerretje  Belitje. 

Cosyn. 
Henry  Kool,  Geertje  Jannetje. 

Corneliis. 


20. 


Martinus  C  r  i  g  i  e  r,  Hendrik. 

Margrietje   v.  Da- 

len. 
Gerret  S  c  h  li  y  1  e  r,  Pieter. 

Aeghje  de  Groof. 
A  n  d  r  i  e  s    Harden-  Theodoras. 

broek,     Femmetje 

V.  d'  Clyflf. 


GETUYGEN. 

Will  Waldrom,  Jan  v. 
Sent,  Annetje  Wal- 
drom. 

Lourens  Wesselse, 
Aefje  Bret. 

Leonard  Lieiiwis,  Jaapje 
s:  dochter. 

Gysbert  v.  Imbiirg,  Sara 
Turk. 

Pieter   Brestede,    Marga- 

riet  Narthen. 
Abrah:  Provoost,  Catha- 

rina,    huys   v'   van  M' 

Samiiel  Staats. 
Barnardus   Hardenbroek, 

Deborah  Filding. 
g  Willem  Brouwer  &  Mary- 
I      tje,   s:  h''  v',  Aric  Ko- 
l      ning,  Antje  Peck. 
Frans  van  Dyk,  Elizabeth 

Burger. 
Gerret  v.  Hoorn  &  Elsje, 

s:  h^  v"^,  Casparus  Bosch 

&  Antje   Smith,   h.   v. 

van  Justus  Bosch. 
Abrah:  Bradjor. 
Elizabeth  de  Boog,  John 

Thebles,  Sara   Play,  j. 

dochter. 

Cornelus  Clopper,  J'.,  Ca- 

tharina,  s.  h^  vrouw. 
Barnardus   Hardenbroek, 
Anneke  Hardenbroek. 

Jacob  Fenix,  Antje  van 
Eekelen. 

Hendrik  Vander  Helil, 
Matje,  s:  h^  vrouw. 

Christoffel  Hardenbroek, 
Catharina  Harden- 
broek. 

Johannes  Banker,  Jan- 
netje Krieger. 

Adolph  de  Groof,  Alida 

Schuyler. 
Christoffel  Hardenbroek, 

Geerje  v.  Clyff,  Wed^. 


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KINDER6. 


23- 


(344) 

January  27. 


30. 

February  3. 


10. 


13. 


16. 


20. 


24. 


29. 


Jan   Cornelusse    van  .     ,  • 
XT-      1     1    T         1     Andries 
Niewkerkjjenneke  ^        ,, 

Brestede. 


Abraham  van  Deurse, 
Lucretia  Bogardiis. 

John  Estrey,  Rebecka 
Kwik. 

Cornelus  de  Peyster, 
Cornelia  Diss  en- 
ton. 

NicolaasSomerendyk, 
Margrietje  Her- 
mans. 

Anthony  Byrank, 
Teiintje  Laning. 

Hendriklis  C  o  e  r  t  e, 
Elizabeth  De  Re- 
mer. 

Pieter  Davidts,  Maria 
Kierstede. 

Joseph  Smith,  Mar- 
greta  Korse. 

Gerret  Keteltas,  Ca- 

tharina  v,  Dyk. 
F  r  a  n  s    Garbrantse, 

Elizabeth  Wessels. 
Johannes    Hooglant, 

Jenneke  Andries. 
Richard  Care,  Mary- 

tje  C  ok  ever. 
Jurian   Wold,   Aaltje 

Brouwer. 
An  t h o n y  Lippenar, 

Elizabeth     de 

Kleyn. 
Abraham  Aalsteyn, 

Marretje  Jans. 
CoenraatTen  Yk,  S", 

Anna  van  Eps. 
Coenraat  Ten  Y  k, 

Jiifi'.,    Sara   Van 

Vorst. 
Johannes  Van   d  e  r 

Spiegel,     Marretje 

Lierse. 
Harmaniis  Rutgers, 

Catharina  Meyer. 
Hendrik  Kiiyler,  Ma- 
ria Jacobz. 


Marytje. 

Elizabeth. 

Catharina. 

Egbert. 

Evert. 
Catharina. 

Maria. 
Elizabeth. 

Johannes. 

Johannes. 

Benjamin. 

Marytje. 

Mathefis. 

Magdalena. 

Johannes. 
Johannes. 
Jacobus. 

Jacob. 

Hendrik. 
Maria. 


GETUYGEN. 

2  Andries   Brestede,    Anna 
I     Maria  v.  Varik,  Johan- 
I     nes  Brestede,  Jannetje 
Niewkerk. 
Johannes  v.  Deurse,  Jan- 
netje, s,  h,  v'. 
Jacob  Conink,  Johannes 

Peek. 
Isaac  de  Peyster,  Corne- 
lia Law. 


Volkert  & 
Saartje. 


Heermans. 


Gerret  Duyking,  Marytje 

By  van  g. 
Isaac  de  Riemer,  Se',  An- 

tje  Keteltas. 

Cornelus  Kierstede, 
Aariaantje  de  Groof. 

Johan'  Hardenbroek,  Ca- 
tharina Hardenbroek, 
J.  docht: 

Johannes  van  G  i  e  s  s  e  n, 
Antje  Keteltas. 

Abrah:  Splinter,  Annetje 
Wessels. 

Anthony  Rutgers,  Catha- 
rina V.  de  Water. 

Hendrik  van  Rood,  Matje 
van  der  Heiil. 

Jan  Thomasse  Vos,  Wil- 
lemyntje  Brouwer. 

Barent  de  Kleyn,  Maria 
Robberson. 

Theophilus  Pels,  Maria 
Jansen. 

Johannes  Banker,  Geer- 
truyd  Staats. 

Jacobus  Krankheyt,  Eli- 
zabeth, s:  h^  v'. 

Hendrik  us  Van  der  Spie- 
gel, Annetje  v:  d"'  Spie- 
gel Wed:  V.  Jacobus. 

Hendrik  Van  der  Heul, 
Hendrikje  Rutgers. 

John  Crugo,  Maria  K(iy- 
ler,  s:  h^  v'. 


46 


Records  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  in  New  York.  [Jan., 


(345) 
Maart  i6. 

19. 


A"  1712.  OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

Maart  2.  John   Lasler,  Helena  Elizabeth. 

Bisset. 
9.  John  Thorne,  Maria  John. 

Brestede. 
Theiinis   van  Waert,  Catharina. 
Angenietje  van  der 
Spiegel. 
Jacob  Sammons,  Cat-  Johannes. 

l)>ntje  Bensen, 
Cozyn    Andriesse,  Claasje. 
Grietje  Someren- 
dyk. 

Jacob  P  r  e  y  e  r,  Lea  Johanna. 

Beekman. 
Joris   H  o  o  m  s,  Jen-  Cornelia. 

neke  Bogert. 
Theunis  Van  Vegte,  Elsje. 

Antje  Heermans. 
Jacob  Brouwer,  Pie-  Johannes. 

ternella  de  Lamon- 

tagne. 
William  H  e  m  m  e  n,  John. 

Maria  Walgraaf. 
Johannes    Hooglant,  Rebecka. 

J^,  Catharina  Goe- 

derus. 
Hendrikljs  Van  Gel-  Fytje. 

der,  F  e  m  m  e  t  j  e 

Wynants. 
Aarnout  H  e  n  d  r  i  x,  Neeltje. 

Geertje  Claas. 
Johannes  Brugh,  Mar-  Elizabeth. 

grietje  Provoost. 
April  6.  Corneliis   J  a  c  o  b  z  e,  Jacob. 

Jenneke  Peers. 
13.  AlbartusHulst,  Aaltje  Hilletje. 

Provoost. 
Benjamin  R  i  v  i  e  r  s,  Maria, 

Aefje  Mol. 
Thorn.    Sickels,   Jan-  Wilhelmus. 

netje  Brevoort. 
21.  Casparus   Bosch,  Maryije. 

Jeanney  Maeden. 

Giedion  C  a  s  t  a  n  g,  Jannetje. 

Tryntje  Cokever. 
William  White,  Hend-  Abigail. 

rikje  Bosch. 
Jacob  Massing,  Cor-  Cornelus. 

nelia  Dykman. 


23. 


26. 


GETUYGEN, 

John    Jansen,    Elizabeth 

Lam. 
Johannes  ten  Yk  &  Wyn- 

tje,  s:  h'  v'. 
Rip  van  Dam,  Elizabeth 

de  Foreest. 

Thomas  Sammons,  Ra- 
chel Couwenhove. 

Jan  Arianse,  Grietje  So- 
merendyk. 


Casparus  Preyer,  Celitje 
Preyer. 

Elbert  Harmese,  Catha- 
rina, s:  h^  vroiiw. 

Benjamin  VanVegte, 
Geerje  Heermans. 

Jan  de  Lamontagne,  Eli- 
zabeth, s:  h:  v'. 

Adolph  Philips,  Catharina 

Philips,  Wed". 
Gerret    Duyking,    Parent 

Hibon,  Rebecka  Goe- 

derus. 
Jacob    Bennet,    Marretje 

Roseboom. 

Dirk  Koek,  Neeltje  Sha- 
haan. 

Gerret  v.  Hoorn,  Helena 
de  Kay. 

Jan  Kierse,  Marretje  El- 
lis Wed^ 

Stephanus  Baekenhove, 
Anna  Hulst,  s.  h^  v". 

Thomas  Statham,  Maria 
Drommey. 

Willem  &  Jan- ) 
netje  [ 

Albartus  Coenradiis 
Bosch,  Marytje  Jeets, 
s:  h=:  v'. 

Isaac  Van  Deiirse,  Jan- 
netje Cokever. 

Johannes  Jooste,  Jiidith, 
s.  h=  v^ 

Gerret  Hassing,  Engeltje, 
s:  h^  v'. 


Rome. 


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47 


A'  1712. 


27. 


20. 
(346) 
May  II. 


i». 


25. 


29. 

Juny  I. 
8. 


9- 

15- 

18. 


29. 


OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

Hendrikus   Van    der  Louwerens. 

Spiegel,  Anneke 

Provoost. 
Jacob  Hoogteling,  Hendrik. 

Jannetje   v.   Noor- 

strant. 
Jan  Rosevelt,  Heyltje  Johannes. 

Sjoerts. 
Jacobus   Mol,    Lidia  Rachel. 

Wenne. 
Adriaan  Man,  Hester  Adriaan. 

Bording. 
Richard  Uagere,  Hes-  Richard. 

ter  Blank, 
GerretViele,  Jannetje  Hendrik. 

V.  Veurde. 
Samson  Bensen,  Jn".,  Abraham. 

Marytje  Boke, 
Benjamin  Bil,  Geerje  Penelope. 

Brevoort. 
Jacob  Blom,  Mayke  Marytje. 

Bosch. 
Benjamin    Quakken-  Lea. 

bos,  Claasje  Web- 
ber. 
Jacobus  V.  Varik,  An-  Sara. 

na  Maria  Brestede. 
Robberd  B  e  n  s  i  n  g,  Tryntje. 

Cornelia  Roos. 
Frans  Van  Dyk,  Fy-  Hendrikje. 

tje  Dirks. 
John    Cruger,   Maria  Maria. 

Kuyler. 
Jan  Herres,  Jannetje  Jasper. 

Nessepat. 
Andries  Ten  Yk,  Ba-  Dirk. 

rendina    Her  ten- 
berg. 
Thomas  Sanders,  Jacob. 

Aaltje  Santfoordt. 
P  a  t  r  i  k  Macknight,  John. 

Amea  Clopper. 
Jan    Brestede,   Anna  Anna  Maria. 

Maria  Elzewarth. 
Joachim  Staats,  oby,  Elizabeth. 

Francj'ntje    L  e  y- 

slaar. 
Johannes  van  Deurse,  Catharina. 

Jannetje  Marthel. 
Jacobus  MoCiritz,  El-  Elzebeth. 

zebeth  Stevens. 


GETUYGEN. 

David  Provoost,  J".,  Sa- 
ratje  Van  Dam, 

Marinus  Roelofse,  Agnie- 
tje  Hanjon. 

Johannes  v.  der  Heiil  & 

Jannetje,  s:  h^  vr: 
Maria  Lass. 

Samliel  Pel,  Maria  Mesier, 

s.  h.  V. 
Benjamen  Oldes,  Hester 

Blank,  ze". 
Jacobus    Moene,    Johan- 
na^ Janson. 
Samson  Bensen,  S"^  Tan- 

neke  Boke. 
Michiel   Basset,  Helena, 

s:  hs:  v". 
Johannes     Hardenbroek, 

Saartje  Hyer. 
Cornellis  Webber,  Diever 

Quackenbos. 

Jan  Van  Varik,  Margrietje 

Varik  jo.  docht. 
Dirk  Bensen,  J",  AaLtje  h^ 

v^  v.  Gerret  Provoost. 

Gerret   &  )  tr 
^       ^.-     \  Hassmg. 
Engeltje  j  ° 

Abrah:  Kuyler,  Maria 
Hendrik  Ciiylers,  h.  v. 

Adriaan  Man,  Jannetje 
Wessels. 

Coenraat  Ten  Yk,  Jn'., 
Rachel  Grant. 

Richard  Rhee,  Sytje  Sant- 
foort. 

Cornelus  &  )  Klop- 
Catharina    j   pers. 

Christoffel  Brestede,  Ca- 
tharina Brestede,  s.  siis'. 

Samuel  Staats,  Elizabeth, 
h.  v.  V.  Joh:  Schuyler. 

Abrah.  van  Dedrse,  Lu- 
cretje,  s:  hs:  v'. 

Gerrardus  Mouritz,  Mar- 
grietje Paske. 


48  The  Arms  and  Seals  of  New  York:  a  Defence.  [Jan., 


THE  ARMS  AND  SEALS  OF  NEW  YORK:  A  DEFENCE. 


To  the  Publication   Committee  of  The   New  York   Genealogical  and 
Biographical  Record. 

Gentlemen:  In  regard  to  the  paper  printed  in  the  October,  1885, 
number  of  The  New  York  Genealogical  and  Biographical  Record,  on 
'*  The  Arms  of  the  State  of  New  York,  and  How  They  have  been  Altered," 
I  think  that  in  ahnost  all  respects  it  would  be  sufficient  that  you  should 
allow  me  to  refer  those  who  have  the  time  and  the  disposition  to  investigate 
and  form  their  own  opinions  on  the  matters  contested  against  to  the  three 
papers  on  the  New  York  Arms  with  which  my  name  is  associated. 

These  published  papers  are  "  The  Correct  Arms  of  the  State  of  New 
York"  and  "  Second  Paper  on  the  Correct  Arms,"  printed  in  separate  pam- 
phlets in  Albany,  in  1880  and  1882,  and  in  1884  together  in  Vol.  X.  of  the 
"Transactions  of  the  Albany  Institute  j  "  and  then  the  "  Report  of  the  State 
Commission  on  the  New  York  Arms,"  published  in  the  "Assembly  Docu- 
ments of  1882,"  to  one  edition  of  which  there  is  appended  a  letter  of  mine  to 
the  commission.  They  may  be  found  in  the  public  libraries  of  the  State. 
I  see  no  occasion,  after  reading  the  article  in  The  Record  in  close  compari- 
son with  these  three  papers,  for  modifying  a  hne  in  them  so  far  as  these 
criticisms  are  concerned.  The  decision  of  broad-minded,  practical,  and 
reasonable  men  will  be  that,  in  the  absence  of  a  written  blazon  or  descrip- 
tion of  the  original  arms  and  seals,  the  conclusions  of  the  commission  as 
to  what  was  a  fairly-reproduced  drawing  of  them  is  both  defensible  and 
correct. 

The  October  article  in  The  Record  gives  the  greatest  prominence  to 
questions  of  color.  Now,  in  the  insignia  of  our  State,  called  arms,  and  in 
the  designs  for  seals,  color  was  of  secondary  importance,  although  in  the 
science  of  heraldry,  which,  however,  has  only  an  artificial  and  illusory  exist- 
ence in  this  country,  it  may  be  of  serious  significance  for  a  family  coat-of- 
arms.  And  I  should  as  soon  think  of  entering  into  debate  with  the  author 
of  this  paper  on  a  question  of  heraldic  colors  as  with  a  king-of-arms  of 
the  Heralds'  College  in  London.  But  in  the  New  York  Arms  questions 
of  color  are  involved  in  but  very  slight  degree,  for  in  the  two  oldest  ex- 
amples of  the  arms,  matters  of  color  were  apparently  disregarded  by  the 
commissions  of  the  years  1777  and  1778.  And  so  far  as  color  was  at- 
tended to  by  the  painters  of  the  third  and  fourth  drawings,  those  of  the 
Gansevoort  flag  of  1778,  and  the  St.  Paul's  Chapel  picture  of  1785,  it  has 
not  been  disregarded  by  the  commission  of  1882  in  the  restored  arms.  In 
view  of  the  uncertain  and  late  date  of  the  chapel  painting,  we  have  but 
one  early  witness  as  to  color,  the  Gansevoort  flag  of  1778. 

As  I  am  here  strengthening  the  statement  of  the  first  and  second  papers 
on  the  correct  arms,  by  speaking  of  two  drawings  instead  of  only  one 
earlier  than  the  flag  of  1778,  let  me  explain  the  new  position  taken.  In- 
stead of  three  authoritative  early  drawings,  we  now  speak  of  four  :  (i) 
The  Great  and  Privy  Seal  of  1777  ;  (2)  The  Arms  in  the  Initial  Letter  in 
the  MiUtary  Commissions  of  1778  ;  (3)  The  Gansevoort  Flag  of  1778  ;  (4) 
The  St.  Paul's  Chapel  Painting  of  1785. 

The  importance  of  No.  i  was  partially  explained  in  the  second  paper, 


i886.]  The  Arms  and  Seals  oj  Neiv  York  :  a  Defence.  aq 

but  the  significance  of  the  two  seals  of  1777  has  assumed  more  definite 
value  since  that  was  written.  The  commission  of  1777  rej-orted  a  large 
pendant  seal,  made  of  wax,  covered  with  paper  on  each  side,  and  the  ob- 
verse and  reverse  were  both  impressed  with  emblems.  One  side  had  a 
rock  in  the  midst  of  the  sea,  the  motto  Frustra,  and  the  date  of  1777  ;  the 
other  side  had  a  rising  sun  behind  mountains,  and  water  in  front,  with  a 
meadow  at  the  base.  ATany  of  these  may  still  be  found  in  the  public  offices 
at  Albany.  It  bore  the  legend,  "  The  Great  Seal  of  the  State  of  New  York," 
and  was  attached,  as  was  usual,  to  documents  by  a  string.  The  other  seal, 
which  was  not  a  fifth  of  the  size  of  the  great  seal,  had  a  picture  of  a  demi- 
globe,  upon  which  stood  an  eagle,  and  around  the  margin  was  the  motto, 
Excelsior.  This  small  seal  became  immediately  the  governor's  privy  seal, 
to  be  used  by  him  as  the  law  of  1778  provided,  for  such  cases  as  those 
where  the  colonial  governor  had  used  a  privy  seal,  which  was  often  their 
own  family  crest.  It  will  be  found  attached  to  all  the  scores  of  those  mil- 
itary commissions  of  that  year,  still  preserved  at  the  capitol,  which  have 
the  initial  T  containing  the  State  arms.* 

When,  early  in  the  year  1778,  it  was  found  that,  in  consequence  of  the 
distracting  affairs  of  the  war,  the  commission  had  not  completed  the  duty 
assigned  them,  and  had  only  reported  a  great  and  privy  seal,  a  second 
commission  was  appointed,  who  speedily  reported  the  "  arms  complete  " 
which  were  adopted  in  the  law  of  March  16,  1778.  The  facts  show  that 
the  second  commission  completed  the  work  of  the  first  commission  by 
adopting  the  great  seal  already  reported  as  the  shield  of  the  arms,  and  the 
privy  seal  as  the  crest  of  the  arms,  and  solely  added  as  supporters  Liberty 
and  Justice,  with  the  motto  transferred  to  the  scroll  on  which  they  stand. 
As  the  drawing  of  the  ''  arms  complete  "  appears  on  an  engraved  military 
commission  at  least  as  early  as  June,  and  within  three  months  of  the 
passage  of  the  law  of  March  16,  1778,  adopting  the  arms,  it  is  doubtless 
the  first  engraving  of  them  ever  made,  and  consequently  it  becomes  the 
second  in  order  of  time  of  our  early  examples  of  the  arms  and  seals.  What 
the  commissions  said  or  thought  about  color  we  do  not  know,  though  we 
do  adopt  color  from  the  two  later  drawings.  As  the  first  commission  intro- 
duced a  meadow  at  the  base  of  the  shield,  which  the  author  of  the  October 
article  does  not  adopt,  so  the  second  commission  introduced  at  the  foot  of 
Liberty  an  overturned  crown,  of  which  also  the  writer  makes  no  mention, 
notwithstanding  that  this  crown  is  found  in  the  same  spot  on  our  second, 
third,  and  fourth  early  pictures  of  the  arms  already  mentioned.  The  com- 
mission of  1882,  on  the  contrary,  have  altered  nothing.  There  cannot  be 
a  pretence  for  the  change,  even  in  the  matter  of  color.  The  omission  of 
the  overturned  crown,  which  is  so  distinctly  pictured  on  these  three  earliest 
representations  of  the  "complete"  arms,  cannot  be  satisfactory  to  lovers 
of  American  institutions,  when  they  stop  to  recall  the  men  who  placed  it 
there,  and  the  years  in  which  they  retained  it  there. 

The  great  seals  to  whose  authority  the  October  article  appeals  are 
those  as  late  as  the  years  1798  and  1809  ;  the  great  seal  to  which  the  late 
commission  appeals  is  of  the  year  1777.  The  critic  affirms  that  there  is 
some  representation  which  "has  been  accepted  as  the  true  arms  for  a  hun- 
dred years"  (p.  155);  and,  again,  "have  been  used  during  the  whole  cen- 

*  The  tendency  with  publishers  and  engravers  to  perpetuate  an  error  is  illustrated  in  the  editions  of  The 
New  York  Civil  List,  that  year  after  year  print  drawings  of  the  ancient  seals.  The  edition  for  1883  still 
otnits  the  meadow  at  the  base  of  the  shield  of  the  great  seal  of  1777,  although  it  is  not  wanting  in  any  oi>e 
of  the  original  wax-seals  impressions  still  extant. 


CO  Records  of  the  First  and  Second  Presbyterian  Churches.        [Jan., 

tury,  with  all  sorts  of  bad  drawing"  (p.  152}.  On  the  contrary,  it  was  be- 
cause there  was  uncertainty  in  every  man's  mind  what  were  the  arms  of  New 
York  that  he  engaged,  in  1875,  in  making  anew  drawing;  and  it  was 
because  attention  was  afterward  called  to  three  earlier  representations 
than  the  chapel  painting  of  1 785  that  the  new  commission  was  appointed. 
This  new  commission  was  carefully  informed  up  to  the  last  moment  pre- 
ceding its  adoption  of  their  report  of  all  the  objections  made  by  the  author 
of  the  October  article.  A  special  portfolio,  also  in  the  State  Library,  con- 
tains at  least  forty  pictures  which  have  been  in  use  as  legitimate  represen- 
tations of  the  arms  differing  from  each  other  ;  and  within  a  few  months  I 
have  received  copies  of  all  the  seals  in  use  in  the  counties  of  the  State, 
and  not  one  of  them  conforms  to  the  arms  or  the  seals  of  1798  or  1809, 
nor  did  one  of  the  seSls  in  use  in  the  departments  at  the  capitol  in  t88i 
conform  to  those  seals  or  to  the  arms  of  any  date. 

There  is  an  importance  to  be  ascribed  to  the  new  law  of  1882  on  the 
arms,  that  it  embodies  a  blazon  or  verbal  description  of  them,  and  no 
description  of  them  has  hitherto  been  found  anywhere.  The  fact  is  of 
equal  importance  that  under  this  new  law  each  department  at  the  capitol 
is  required  to  use  the  State  arms  only  as  its  seal,  instead  of  indulging,  as 
many  of  them  did,  in  designs  for  seals  which  had  no  relation  whatever  to 
the  State  arms.  To  have  established  by  law  these  two  measures  is  a  result 
of  such  permanent  and  eminent  value  as  to  cause  questions  relative  to 
color  merely  to  sink  easily  out  of  view.  The  severe  epithets  in  the  article 
have  been  observed,  but  there  is  no  occasion  to  rebut  them  by  any  further 
remarks  than  those  contained  in  the  preceding  statements.  It  is  plain 
from  the  report  of  the  commission  of  1882,  and  from  this  rejoinder,  that 
the  author  of  the  October  article,  by  not  recognizing  the  meadow  at  the 
base  of  the  shield,  as  found  in  the  two  earliest  drawings,  and  by  his  not 
mentioning  and  leaving  off  the  crown  at  the  foot  of  Liberty,  which  is  upon 
three  of  the  early  pictures  of  the  arms,  including  the  fourth  or  chapel  pic- 
ture, which  had  been  before  him,  has  brought  us  directly  to  his  topic,  "  how 
the  arms  have  been  altered  !  "  And  the  answer  follows  directly  that  as 
the  commission  has  retained  these,  that  they  at  least  have  had  no  dis- 
position to  alter  and  have  not  altered  the  original  arms  or  seals. 
Very  respectfully  your  obedient  servant, 

,     Henry  A.  Homes. 
New  York  State  Library, 

Albany,  N.  Y.,  December  20,  1885. 


RECORDS  OF  THE  FIRST  AND  SECOND  PRESBYTERIAN 
CHURCHES  IN  THE  CITY  OF  NEW  YORK.— Births  and 
Baptisms. 

(Continued  from  Vol.  XVI.,  p.  141,  of  The  Record.) 


,     1784- 
(198)  ^^ 

Hay.  May      17"'.  Elizabeth  Hallam,  Dau'  of  Col.  Samuel  Hay  & 

Eliz*  Neil  his  wife,  born  April  29*    1784. 

Mecker.  May      18*.  Sarah  Meeker,  an  Adult. 

Howard.  June        7*\  Rachel,    Dau""   of  James    Howard   &   Rachel 

Johnson  his  wife,  born  June  26"*,  1781. 


i886.]       Records  of  the  First  and  Second  Presbyterian  Churches.  ^  i 

Elizabeth,  Dau'  of  John  DeGroat  and  Mary- 
Laurence  his  wife,  born  April  14^'',  1784. 

Jacob,  son  of  John  Lasher  &  Catharine  Ernest 
his  wife,  born  June  i'^',  1784. 

Catherine,  Dau'  of  Abraham  Van  Alstyne  and 
Catherine,  his  wife,  born  May  29'^  1784. 

Eve,  Dau' of  William  Sills  and  MaryVVitsell  his 
wife,  born  May  29'^  1784. 

Stephen,  Son  of  Christopher  Golow  and  De- 
borah Wicks  his  wife,  born  May  14"',  1784. 

Sarah,  Dau'  of  Jeremiah  Youmans,  &  Hannah 
Wiltman  his  wife,  born  April  24"',  1784, 

Rachel,  Dau'  of  James  Van  Brockle  and  Agness 
Bennett  his  wife,  born  Nov'  29"',  1779. 

Mary,  their  Dau',  born  March  18*,  1783. 

Elizabeth,  Dau'  of  Alexander  Moncrief  and 
Jane  Patterson  his  wife,  born  Dec' 9*  1776. 

Elizabeth,  Dau'  of  Jonathan  Clark  and  Eliz* 
Turner  his  wife,  born  Feb'^  20"",  1784. 

Elizabeth,  Dau'  of  Samuel  Bradhurst  and  Mary 
Smith  his  wife,  born  April  25'^  1784. 

Mary,  Dau'  of  Thomas  Kennedy  and  Mary 
Warren  his  wife,  born  June  7*,  1784. 

Sarah,  Dau'  of  Henry  Brashier  and  Lucy  Clark 
his  wife,  born  March  3**,  1 784. 


Sarah,    Dau'   of  William    Ludlum    and    Marg* 

Meeker  his  wife,  born  Feb"^  1 7%  1 783. 
Henry,  Son  of  Lemuel  Bunce  and  Eve  Sheaffe 

his  wife,  born  April  23'',  1784, 
Fredfrick,  Son  of  Frederick  Geraud  and  Re- 

bekah  Post,  his  wife,  born  June  17"',  1784. 
Hannah,    Dau'  of  Jacob  Smith  &  Mary  Pet- 

tinger  his  wife,  born  Sept'  24"^,  1783. 
William    Thomas,  Son  of  Thomas   Moody  & 

Janet  Heburn,  his  wife,  born  Aug''  Io*^  1781. 
Benjamin    A.,    Son    of   Benjamin    Egbert  and 

Mary  Areson  his  wife,  born  Nov'  9'^  1777- 
Elizabeth,  their  Dau',  born  Oct'  I8'^  1781. 
William,  their  Son,  born  Aug'  I2'^  1783. 
Ann,  Dau'  of  Frederick  Davoe,  &  Ann  Are- 
son his  wife,  born  Aug'  i4*\  1783. 
John  Waldron,  son  of  Richard  Norris  &  Ann 

Waldron  his  wife,  born  Nov'  24"^,  1776. 
Ann,  their  Dau',  born  April  21'',  1780. 
Richard,  their  Son,  born  Feb'>'  i9'\  1782. 
Mary,  their  Dau',  born  Oct'  I4•^  1783. 
John  James,  Son  of  James  Stewart  and  Sarahi 

Schermerhorn  his  wife,  born  July  II'^  1784.. 
James,  Son  of  John  Watson  &  Catharine  King; 

his  wife,  born  July  31",  1784- 


De  Groat. 

June 

S"'. 

Lasher. 

June 

io'\ 

"""• — ^ 

Van  Alstyne 

.  June 

13^ 

Sills. 

June 

i3'\ 

Golow. 

June 

2  7'\ 

Youmans. 

June 

2  7'^ 

Van  Brockle 

.  June 

2  7'\ 

June 

2  7'\ 

Moncrief. 

June 

28"^. 

Clark. 

July 

4'^ 

Bradhurst. 

July 

4^ 

Kennedy. 

July 

4'^ 

Brashier. 

July 

4'\ 

(^99) 

Ludlum. 

July 

13"- 

Bunce. 

July 

18*. 

Geraud. 

July 

25*. 

Smith. 

July 

2  7'\ 

Moody. 

July 

28'\ 

Egbert. 

Aug. 

t- 

Davoe. 

[Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 

t- 

Norris, 

Aug. 

13^ 

Stewart. 

Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 

i5'\ 

Watson.  " 

Aug. 

15* 

52 


Records  of  the  First  and  Secotid  Presbyterian  Churches.        [Jan., 


Whitlock. 

Aug. 

18*. 

Brown. 

Aug. 

i8"\ 

Geddes. 

Aug. 

19*". 

(200) 
McIntosh. 

Aug. 

I9'^ 

McMaster. 

Aug. 

2  2^ 

BOWEN. 

Aug. 

2f- 

Clark. 

Aug. 

^f- 

Blair. 

Aug. 

23'- 

Wool. 

Aug. 

2<f. 

Mencor. 

Aug. 

29*. 

Ash. 

Sept. 

I^'. 

Kennedy. 

Sept. 

5*. 

Smithson. 

Sept. 
Sept. 

5". 

Turnier. 

Sept. 

12*. 

Morrison. 

Sept. 

i4'\ 

Sept. 
Sept. 

I4*^ 

McDonald. 

Sept. 

— . 

Stone. 

Sept. 
Sept. 

I4"\ 
16*. 

(201) 
Starr. 

Sept. 

i6*\ 

McCullen. 

Sept. 

16*. 

McFaden. 

Sept. 
Sept. 
Sept. 

16"^, 
19"-' 

Neil. 

Sept. 

19"^ 

William,  Son  of  Ephraim  Whitlock  and  Ann 
Tiebout  his  wife,  born  Oct'  25*  1779, 

Joseph,  Son  of  John  Brown  &  Mary  Herriot 
his  wife,  born  Oct'  23"^,  1781. 

David  Dunlap,  Son  of  George  Geddes  and  Isa- 
bella Hayes  his  wife,  born  June  10*,  1784. 

William,  Son  of  James  Mcintosh  and  Rachel 
Porterfield  his  wife,  born  July  16*,  1784. 

John,  Son  of  James  McMaster  &  Sarah  John- 
son his  wite,  born  July  iS"",  1784. 

Elizabeth,  Dau'  of  Alexander  Bowen  &  Han- 
nah Lambert  his  wife,  born  Jan'^  20^*",  1776. 

Ann,  Dau'  of  George  Clark  &  Ann  Graham 
his  wife,  born  March  14"",  1784. 

Margaret  &  Janet,  twin  Dau"  of  James  Blair 
&  Jane  Sutherland  his  wife,  born  Aug'  10*, 
1784. 

John  Ellis,  Son  of  John  Wool  and  Ann  Relay 
his  wife,  born  Jan"^  31",  1784. 

Elizabeth,  Dau'  of  William  Mencor  &  Susan- 
nah Whiting  his  wife,  born  Aug'  i6'^  1784. 

John,  son  of  WilHam  Ash  &  Mary  Montanye 
his  wife,  born  July  18"',  1784. 

Mary  Hamilton,  Dau'  of  Henry  Kennedy  & 
Ann  Durlay  his  wife,  born  Nov"^  5%  1782. 

Thomas,  their  Son,  born  Aug'  8,  1 784. 

Thomas,  son  of  Thomas  Smithson  &  Hannah 
Cochran  his  wife,  born  Dec'  20'^  1782. 

Jemima,  Dau'  of  John  Turnier  &  Hannah 
Bugby  his  wife,  born  Aug'  1 7'^  1 784. 

James,  Son  of  James  Morrison  &  Ann  Benson 
his  wife,  born  June  28"",  1777. 

David,  their  Son,  born  Aug',  1779. 

John  &  Mary,  their  Twin  Children,  born  Aug' 
12"^,  1 781. 

Sarah,  Dau'  of  James  McDonald  &  Mary  Perry 
his  wife,  born  Feb'^  14'^  1781. 

Joseph,  their  Son,  born  Sept'  14"',  1781. 

Jabez,  Son  of  Jeremiah  Stone  &  Ann  Walker 
his  wife,  born  July  5"",  1783. 

Maria,   Dau'  of  Ezra  Starr  &  Elizabeth  Cod- 
wise  his  wife,  born  Feb'^  22d,  1784. 
Mary,  Dau'  of  James  McCullen  &  Mary  Curry 
his  wife,  born  May  15"',  1780. 
,  James,  their  Son,  born  April  17"',  1782. 
William,  their  Son,  born  July  19'^,  1784. 
.  Barbara,  Dau'  of  Donald  McFaden  and  Mary 

McClain  his  wife,  born  Aug'  21'",  1784. 
.  Robert,  Son  of  Robert  Neil  &  Phebe  Wheeler 
his  wife,  born  Aug'  29th,  1784. 


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53 


Hagerman.      Sept.  26*'' 

Smithson.         Sept.  26'^ 

GiLLILAND.          Sept.  26'^ 

MONTANYIE.       Sept.  26" 

Wallis.             Sept.  26*^ 

Sept.  26'' 

Sept.  — 

WOODHULL.         Oct.  3' 

VANDERHOEFF.Oct.  X 


Tucker. 

Oct. 

l'- 

COOLY. 

Oct. 
Oct. 

t- 

(202) 
Angus. 

Oct. 

11^ 

Cameron. 

Oct. 

17^ 

Martin. 

Oct. 

17^ 

Edward. 

Oct. 

17^ 

Montgomery 

.  Oct. 

18*. 

Jones. 

Oct. 

24^ 

Watkins. 

Nov. 

7'^ 

DONGAL. 

Nov. 

14^ 

Nichols. 

Nov. 

1 7*''. 

Bingham. 

Nov. 

21='. 

WiLCOCKS. 

Nov. 

21^'. 

Lincoln. 

Nov. 

21='. 

Nov. 

2I=*. 

CURRIE. 

Nov. 

2  1='. 

Blackwell. 

Nov. 

26'\ 

Eleanor  Brasher,  Dau""  of  Jacob  Hagerman  & 

Sarah  Berrien  his  wife,  born  Aug'  29"",  1784. 
John,  Son  of  John  Smithson  &  Hannah  Coch- 
ran his  wife,  born  Feb"^  I3'^  1781. 
John,  Son  of  John  GilHland  &  Catharina  Ara- 

mina  his  wife,  born  June  24*,  1784. 
John,  Son  of  John  Montanyie  &  Mary  Blain  his 

wife,  born  Aug'  15'^,  1780. 
John,  Son  of  Joseph  WalUs  &  Sarah  Tattersill 

his  wife,  born  Sept"  29"*,  1780. 
EHzabeth,  their  Dau",  born  Sepf  29'^  1782. 
Sarah,  their  Dau',  born  Sepf  5"",  1784. 
EHzabeth,  Dau'  of  James  WoodhuU  and  Ke- 

turah  Strong  his  wife,  born  Sepf  2^,  1784. 
Halbert,   Son    of  CorneUus    Vanderhoeff  and 

Margaret  Keyser  his  wife,  born  Aug'  30*, 

1784. 
Phebe,  Dau'  of  Abraham  Tucker  &  Susannah 

Crane  his  wife,  born  Dec'  13"",  1781. 
Clark,  their  Son,  born  Dec"'  21=',  1783. 
William  Harrison,  son   of  William  Cooly   and 

Sybil  Curtis  his  wife,  born  July  ii"*,  1784. 

James,  Son  of  Walter  Angus  &  Jane  Burns  his 
wife,  born  Sepf  2  5'^  1784. 

Alexander,  Son  of  John  Cameron  and  Mary 
Frazer  his  wife,  born  Sepf  24'\  1784. 

John,  Son  of  Robert  Martin  &  Catharine 
Somerdyke  his  wife,  born  Ocf  7'^  1 784. 

Elizabeth,  Dau'  of  James  Edward  and  Chris- 
tian Sybbald  his  wife,  born  Sepf  6'^  1 784. 

Isabella,  Dau""  of  Robert  Montgomery  &  Jane 
Wood  his  wife,  born  July  I3'^  1784. 

Jane,  Dau'  of  Isaac  Jones  &  Mary  Lasher  his 
wife,  born  Sepf  23d,  1784. 

Elizabeth,  Dau'  of  Joseph  Watkins  and  Eliz'" 
Gilligham  his  wife,  born  Oct.  6'^  1 784. 

Robert,  son  of  Robert  Dongal  and  Mary  Hors- 
man  his  wife,  born  Ocf  2  9'^  1784. 

Antoinette,  Dau'  of  Lewis  Nichols  &  Mary 
Thompson  his  wife,  born  Ocf  20th,  1784. 

Cornelia,  Dau'  of  John  Bingham  Jun'  and  Ari- 
ante  Vandeusen  his  wife,  born  Nov'  3^*,  1 784. 

Lewis,  Son  of  William  Wilcocks  and  Eliz'"  Ash- 
field  his  wife,  born  Sep'  21",  1784. 

Mary,  Dau'  of  Thomas  Lincoln  &  Ann  Pool 
his  wife,  born  Ocf  II'^  1784. 

Susannah,  Dau'  of  Hosea  Lincoln  &  Eliz*^ 
Carrol  his  wife,  born  Sepf  22**,  1784. 

Margaret,  Dau'  of  Archibald  Currie  &  Cathar- 
ine Sebring  his  wife,  born  Nov'  I6'^  1784. 

Joseph,  Son  of  Joseph  Blackwell  and  Mary 
Hazard  his  wife,  born  Ocf  6%  1778. 


CA         /Records  of  the  First  and  Second  Presbyterian  Churches.         [Jan., 


Nov.     26' 


Duncan. 

Nov. 
Nov. 

28^ 

(203) 
Gale. 

Nov. 

28*. 

Tredwell. 

Nov. 

30^ 

Sneden. 

Nov. 

3o'^ 

MiSSEROY. 

Dec. 

5". 

Lacky. 

Dec. 

I2*\ 

Wilson. 

Dec. 

12^ 

Van  Voorhis.  Dec. 

12"'. 

Wright. 

Dec. 

19^ 

Sherwood. 

Dec. 

— . 

Hazard. 

Dec. 

2  2^^. 

Smith. 

Dec. 
Dec. 

2  2^ 
26^ 

Lake. 

Dec. 
Dec. 
Dec. 

2  6^ 

Baptized  in 

1784: 

(204) 
Davis. 

Jan. 

2^ 

Henderson. 

Jan. 

f\ 

BUSHFIELD. 

Jan. 

9- 

KOLLOCK. 

Jan. 

13*. 

Thompson. 

Jan. 

16*. 

Garrit. 

Jan. 

i6'\ 

McKay. 

Jan. 

19*. 

Raynor. 

Jan. 

23". 

Fiances  Elizabeth,  their  Dau',  born  Feb'^^  7*, 

1780. 
CaroHne,  their  Dau',  born  Ocf  23^*,  1783. 
Margaret,   Dau'  of  Hugh  Duncan  and  Marg' 

McQuean  his  wife,  born  Nov"  (f^^  1784. 

Phcebe,  Dau"  of  Abel  Gale  and  Phoebe  Den- 
ton his  wife,  born  June  9'^  1784. 

Timothy,    son   of  Thomas   Tredwell   &   Ann 
Hazard  his  wife,  born  Nov'  ig'*",  1784. 

Stephen,  Son  of  Elijah  Sneden  &  Sarah  Gregory 

his  wife,  born  Aug*  27"",  1784. 
Francis,  Son  of  George  Misseroy  and  Catharine 

his  wife,  born  Nov'  2d,  1784. 
James,  Son  of  Robert  Lacky  and  Susannah  Noe 
his  wife,  born  Nov'  4"*,  1 784. 

Mary,  Dau'  of  William  Wilson   &   Janet  Loe 
his  wife,  born  Oct'  17*,  1784, 

Robert,  son   of  John    Van   Voorhis   &    Mary 
McKnight  his  wife,  born  Nov'  29'^,  1784. 

David,  Son  of  Jotham  Wright  and  Eliz"'  Duzen- 
bury  his  wife,  born  Dec'  14*,  1779. 

Martha,  Dau'  of  Moses  Sherwood  &  Ehz""  Mil- 
ler, his  wife,  born  Nov'  5*,  1784. 

James,   Son  of    Thomas    Hazard    &   Martha 
Smith  his  wife,  born  Dec'  19*,  1784. 

Elizabeth,  their  Dau',  born  Dec'  19*,  1784. 

Massy,  Dau'  of  Benjamin  Smith  &  Ann  Ben- 
net,  his  wife,  born  May  I6'^  1780. 

Ann,  their  Dau',  born  Nov'  23**,  1784. 

Rachel  Lake,  an  Adult. 

John,   son  of  James   Luke  and    Rachel  Mul- 
leneaux  his  wife,  born  Nov'  13"",  1781. 
:  Males,  79  ;  Females,  85  ;  Total,  164. 

1785. 
Charles,   Son  of  Cornelius    Davis   and    Mary 

Crane  his  wife,  born  Nov'  22*^,  1784. 
Sophia,  Dau'  of  Hugh  Henderson  and  Hannah 

Sheaff  his  wife,  born  Dec'  13%  1784. 
Isabella,  Dau'  of  Thomas  Bushfield  and  Jane 

McMurry  his  wife,  born  Nov'  25th,  1784. 
Sarah,  Dau'  of  Shepard  KoUock  &  Susannah 

Arnet  his  wife,  born  Oct'  5'**,  1782. 
John  Ramsay,  Son  of  Alex'  Thompson  &  Abi- 
gail Amelia   De   Hart  his  wife,  born  Nov' 

26^  1784. 
James,  Son  of^  Michael  Garrit  &  Mary  Matthews 

his  wife,  born  Dec'  i8th,  1784. 
Mary,  Dau'  of  ^2neas  McKay  &  Ruth  Hillery 

his  wife,  born  July  5**",  1783. 
Eleanor,  Dau'  of  Matthew   Raynor  &  Letitia 

Marschalk  his  wife,  born  Dec'  10*,  1784. 


i886.]  Notes  on  Books  rr 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

Blauvelt  and  Van  Antwerp  Families. — E.  M.  Van  Antwerp,  of  43  S,  Elliott 
Place,  Brooklyn,  L.L,  who  has  been  for  sometime  past  engaged  in  collecting  material  for 
the  Blauvelt  family  record  and  the  Van  Antwerp  family  record,  especially  desires  in- 
formation concerning  descendants  of  John  Van  Antwerp,  who  married  Elizabeth  Bogert  • 
Jacobus  Van  Antwerp,  who  married  Ann  Bogert  ;  and  Daniel  Van  Antwerp,  who  mar- 
ried Lydia  Earl ;  sons  of  Jacobus  Van  Antwerp,  who  came  from  Albany  and  settled  in 
New  York,  1741.  The  Van  Antwerp  line  of  descent  to  myself  is  Daniel  Janse  Van 
Antwerp,  of  Schenectady,  born  about  1635  ;  Symon  Danielse  Van  Antwerp,  born  1685  ; 
Jacobus  Van  Antwerp,  born  1724  ;  Nicholas  Van  Antwerp,  born  1760;  Lewis  Van  Ant- 
werp, born  1794;  William  L.  Van  Antwerp,  born  1832;  Erwin  M.  Van  Antwerp, 
born  i860. 

Vandalism. — Two  instances  of  modern  vandalism,  in  connection  with  Washington 
Irving,  have  lately  come  under  the  writer's  notice.  They  are,  I  presume,  one  of  the 
penalties  of  popularity  and  world-wide  fame.  In  the  grand  old  palace  of  the  Alhambra, 
on  the  heights  of  Granada,  our  guide,  in  1883,  showed  the  vacant  spot  from  which  some 
villain  had  pried  out  the  piece  of  mosaic  work  on  which  the  gifted  author  had  written  his 
name,  on  the  occasion  of  his  last  visit  in  1842.  The  other  instance  is  the  shameful  mutila- 
tion of  the  simple  marble-slab  which  marks  his  grave  in  the  Sleepy  Hollow  Cemetery,  at 
Tarrytown.  When  I  last  saw  it  in  September,  1885,  the  stone  was  much  injured,  and  I 
was  informed  by  the  slow-speaking  and  solemn  superintendent,  that  it  was  the  second 
one  placed  there,  the  first  having  been  entirely  destroyed  by  relic-hunters.  j.  g.  w. 

Pike. — Colonel  Nicholas  Pike,  of  575  Carlton  Avenue,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  is  pre- 
paring a  history  of  the  descendants  of  John  Pike,  emigrant  in  1635.  The  family  em- 
braces many  noted  men  of  their  times,  for  instance.  Major  Robert  Pike,  one  of  the 
wisest  and  earliest  settlers  in  Massachusetts,  and  commander-in-chief  of  the  Eastern 
forces ;  the  Rev.  John  Pike,  a  noted  divine,  and  president  of  the  New  England  Confer- 
ences ;  Nicholas  and  James  Pike,  both  authors,  the  former  the  friend  of  Washington ; 
Joseph  Pike,  the  great  Indian  fighter,  killed  at  Ponet  Plains,  in  Revolutionary  times ; 
General  Zebulon  Pike,  and  many  others  of  the  time. 

Dr.  Williams  Patterson,  of  Newark  Valley,  Tioga  County,  N.  Y.,  the  well- 
known  genealogist,  is  now  getting  ready  for  the  press  the  "East  Haddam  Folks' 
Record,"  on  which  he  has  been  for  many  years  engaged.  He  also  has  a  large  collection 
of  Grant,  and  of  Brockway  genealogical  material  on  hand. 

Record  Index. — The  index  to  names  in  Vol.  XVI.  of  the  New  York  Genealogical 
and  Biographical  Record  has  been  unavoidably  delayed,  but  will  appear  in  the 
April  number.  It  is  now  in  preparation,  but  could  not  be  completed  in  season  for  the 
present  issue. 

Hannum. — Descendants  of  William  Hannum,  who  emigrated  from  England  to 
Massachusetts  in  1630,  are  requested  to  correspond  with  C.  S.  Hannum,  P.  O.  Box  501, 
Westfield,  Mass.,  who  is  preparing  a  genealogy  of  the  family. 

Marseilles. — Family  of  Huguenot  origin,  early  settling  in  New  Jersey.  Can  any- 
one inform  me  whether  there  is  extant  any  coat-of-arnts  of  that  name  ? — Charles 
Marseilles,  Exeter,  N.  H. 


NOTES    ON    BOOKS. 


Family  Memorials.     A  Series  of  Genealogical  and  Biographical  Monographs  on  the 

Families  of  Salisbury,  Aldworth-Elbridge,  Sewall,  Pyldren-Dummer,  Waller,  Quincy, 

Gookin,  Wendell,  Breese,  Chevalier-Anderson,  and  Phillips.     With  fifteen  Pedigrees 

and  an  Appendix.     By  Edward  Elbridge  Salisbury.     Square   folio,  pp.  696. 

Privately  printed.      1885.      [Two  hundred  copies  only.] 

These  two  noble  volumes  (the  book  being  bound  in  two  volumes  on  account  of  its 

size)  are  a  surprise  to  us,  accustomed  as  we  have  become,  of  late  years,  to  the  extent  and 

costliness  of  American  family  genealogies.     Its  princely  (for  that  is  the  only  fit  term  to 


eg  Notes  on  Books.  [Jan., 

apply)  elegance  of  typography,  its  fine  paper,  wide  margins,  and  rubricated  lines,  render 
it  remarkable  as  a  piece  of  finished  book-making ;  and,  indeed,  this  has  come  to  be  the 
usual  verdict  on  all  of  the  issues  of  Messrs.  Tuttle,  Morehouse  &  Taylor,  Printers  to 
Yale  College.  But  our  surprise  is  increased  when  we  examine  the  pages  of  these  "Family 
Memorials,"  and  observe  the  wealth  of  personal  and  family  fact,  anecdote,  and  corre- 
spondence which  the  author  has  had  at  his  disposal,  as  well  as  the  deftness  and  delicacy 
with  which  he  has  woven  it  into  the  record  which  he  has  here  given  us  of  his  ancestry. 
It  is  seldom,  perhaps,  that  one  individual  centres  in  himself  so  many  lines  of  relationship, 
so  widely  diverse  in  origin,  yet  so  generally  permeated  with  all  the  elements  of  good 
blood  and  noble  character.  And  it  is  still  more  seldom  that  the  individual  who  is  so 
fortunate  has  the  greater  good  fortune  of  access  to  the  rare  collections  of  material  which 
has  fallen  into  Mr.  Salisbury's  hands,  or  of  ability  to  use  it  with  such  felicitous  discretion 
and  modesty.  English,  Scotch,  and  Dutch  have  all  contributed  to  the  ancestral  lines 
which  the  author  has  thus  gathered  on  his  own  hands;  and  it  is  one  of  the  finest 
groupings  of  individual  character,  depicted  and  blended  together  upon  a  genealogical 
background,  which  we  have  ever  seen.  To  New  England  families  especially  it  will  be  a 
most  interesting  study  of  the  social  life,  manners,  and  customs  of  the  olden  time.  We 
own  to  several  "charmed  hours"  in  looking  over  its  pages.  Its  pedigrees  (fifteen, 
printed  upon  parchment  paper,  and  fully  illustrated  by  family  arms,  etc.)  would  suffi- 
ciently establish  Mr.  Salisbury's  reputation  as  a  genealogist.  The  work  displays  the  same 
deftness  and  precision  of  touch  which  characterizes  his  "  Genealogy  of  the  Griswold 
Family,"  which  appeared  in  the  Magazine  of  American  History  some  time  ago.  It  is  in 
such  works  (and  there  are  few  enough  of  them)  that  genealogy  rises  to  its  full  measure  of 
development — when  the  family  tree,  rugged  and  venerable  as  to  its  trunk,  and  stalwart  of 
limb  and  bough,  blossoms  forth  anew  into  the  bud  and  flower  of  biography  and  individual 
character — a  witness  of  the  past  and  a  teacher  to  the  present.  H.  R.  s. 

Personal  Memoirs  of  U.  S.  Grant,  Vol.  I.,  New  York  :  Charles  L.  Webster  &  Com- 
pany, 1885.     Sold  by  subscription. 

The  long  looked  for  first  volume  of  General  Grant's  Memoirs  appeared  promptly,  as 
promised,  on  the  first  day  of  December.  It  is  an  exceedingly  well  printed  and  bound  oc- 
tavo of  584  pp.,  with  steel  portrait,  plans,  and  maps.  The  second  and  concluding  volume 
will  be  somewhat  thicker,  and  will  appear  in  the  ensuing  March.  Of  the  volume  before 
us,  the  astounding  number  of  318,000  copies  were  sold  in  the  first  twenty-nine  days  of 
December,  1885,  a  sale  never  before  equalled  in  that  space  of  time  by  any  similar  work. 
It  will  doubtless  reach  half  a  million  before  the  close  of  the  present  year,  1886.  It  may 
be  doubted  if  since  the  world  began  any  book  has  been  written  under  similar  conditions. 
It  throws  Sir  Walter  Scott's  efforts  entirely  in  the  shade.  With  one  foot  in  the  grave,  the 
dying  but  determined  soldier,  suffering  almost  constant,  and,  at  times,  the  severest 
agony,  and  never  for  a  moment  without  discomfort,  worked  on  unflinchingly  till  the  last 
page  was  dictated.  All  English-speaking  races  have  reason  to  be  proud  of  Grant's  mar- 
vellous exhibition  of  pure  pluck  and  determination,  and  all  the  world  to  be  interested  in 
the  modest  story  of  his  military  career.  It  is  unquestionably  the  most  valuable  contribu- 
tion yet  made  to  the  history  of  the  late  War.  J.  G.  w. 

Bryant  and  his  Friends  :  Some  Reminiscences  of  the  Knickerbocker  writers.  By 
Jambs  Grant  Wilson.  Illustrated  with  steel  portraits  of  Bryant,  Pauldmg,  and 
Halleck,  and  manuscript  fac-similes  of  Bryant,  Irving,  Dana,  Drake,  Willis,  Poe,  Bay- 
ard Taylor,  John  Howard  Payne,  Geo.  P.  Morris,  and  Alfred  B.  Street.  444  pp., 
l2mo.    Cloth,  bevelled  boards,  gilt  top,  $2.    New  York  :  Fords,  Howard  &  Hulbert. 

Gen.  Wilson's  wide  acquaintance  with  books  and  men,  and  especially  with  the  "  Old 
Guard"  of  American  authors  associated  with  the  poet  Bryant,  has  enabled  him  to  present 
us  with  not  only  a  tenderly  delightful  portrait  of  him,  but  of  those  Men  of  Letters  whose 
century  may  be  said  to  have  ended  with  the  poet's  death.  Gracefully  told  is  the  story  of 
each,  and  interwoven  with  many  an  odd  bit  of  literary  gossip,  wit,  anecdote,  and  remi- 
niscence. We  know  of  one  family  who  have  passed  several  charmed  evenings  around  the 
library  table,  listening  to  the  stories  of  literary  and  personal  history  which  are  so  felicitously 
gathered  in  this  little  volume.  Small  as  it  is,  it  adds  very  much  new  material  to  our  pres- 
ent knowledge  of  the  "Knickerbocker  era"  of  American  literature.  And  upon  the 
library  shelf  it  will  find  frequent  use  as  a  reliable  source  of  reference.  H.  R.  s. 

Century  Magazine. — Many  readers  of  the  Record  will  be  interested  in  a  most 
valuable  and  entertaining  paper  from  the  pen  of  George  Parsons  Lathrop — a  son-in-law 


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of  Hawthorne — to  be  found  in  the  December  number  of  the  Century  Magazine.  It  is 
entitled  "An  American  Lordship,"  and  is  descriptive  of  Gardiner's  Island  and  the 
Gardiner  family.  The  Century  article  is  beautifully  illustrated,  and  cannot  fail  to  in- 
terest genealogists,  a  statement  that  may  also  be  made  in  regard  to  the  paper  on 
the  Gardiners  in  the  present  number  of  the  Record.  Another  noteworthy  illustrated 
article,  contributed  to  the  Cejitury  by  the  venerable  John  Ericsson,  of  this  city,  describes 
the  construction  of  the  celebrated  iron-clad  monitors  which  rendered  such  invaluable  ser- 
vice to  the  North  during  the  War  of  the  Rebellion.  j.  g.  w. 

Colonial  New  York  :  Philip  Schuyler  and  his  Family.    By  George  W.  Schuyler.    2 
vols.,  8vo.     New  York,  1885  :  Charles  Scribner's  Sons. 

This  most  important  contribution  to  the  history  of  Colonial  New  York,  and  to  one  of 
its  most  prominent  families,  allied  with  the  Bayards,  Livingstons,  Van  Cortlandts,  Ver- 
plancks,  and  Van  Rensselaers,  was  begun  merely  as  a  genealogical  study.  After  eight  years 
of  careful  research  among  the  archives  of  New  York,  New  Jersey,  Pennsylvania,  and  New 
England,  as  well  as  among  numerous  private  family  papers,  Mr.  Schuyler  has  given  to 
the  world  these  two  most  valuable  volumes,  of  which  we  hope  to  prepare  a  more  full  and 
elaborate  notice  for  a  future  number  of  The  Record.  j.  g.  w. 

Charles  Darwin.     By  Grant  Allen.     New  York:  D.  Appleton  &  Co. 

This  exceedingly  well-written  memoir  of  Charles  Darwin  is  the  first  volume  of  the 
"English  Worthies"  series.  To  the  many  admirers  of  this  author's  scientific  works  on 
Evolution,  etc.,  Mr.  Grant  Allen's  biography  will  be  warmly  welcomed.  The  second 
volume  of  this  neat  and  attractive  i8mo  series,  which  is  edited  by  Andrew  Lang,  will 
appear  early  in  January.  Its  subject  is  the  Duke  of  Marlborough,  one  of  England's  three 
greatest  soldiers,  the  other  two  being  Cromwell  and  Wellington.  The  memoir  of  Marl- 
borough is  from  the  pen  of  George  Saintbury.  j.  G.  w. 


IN  MEMORIAM.— GEN.  U.  S.  GRANT. 

At  the  first  autumn  meeting  of  the  New  York  Genealogical  and  Biographical  Society, 
held  at  the  Hall  of  the  Academy  of  Medicine,  Friday  evening,  October  9,  1885,  President 
Drowne  in  the  chair,  a  committee  consisting  of  Gen.  Jas.  Grant  Wilson,  Hon.  John  Jay, 
and  Hon.  William  Waldorf  Astor,  was  appointed  by  him  to  draft  suitable  resolutions  in 
regard  to  the  death  of  Gen.  U.  S.  Grant,  an  Honorary  Member  of  the  Society. 

*  *  *  *  :|c  *  if  if  *'* 

Whereas^  In  the  providence  of  God,  this  country  and  this  Society  are  called  on  to  mourn 
the  death  at  Mt.  McGregor,  N.  Y.,  on  Thursday  morning,  July  23,  1885,  of  Gen. 
Ulysses  S.  Grant, 

Resolved,  That  this  Society  does  hereby  set  forth  its  high  appreciation  of  his  patriotism 
and  virtues,  combined  with  the  most  exalted  military  skill.  Under  his  leadership  the  late 
Rebellion  was  successfully  subdued,  and  under  his  Presidency  the  country  was  restored  to 
the  paths  of  peace  and  prosperity.  His  public  virtues  and  services  were  not  greater  than 
those  which  .so  beautifully  characterized  all  the  relations  of  his  private  life. 

Resolved.,  That  this  Society  hereby  expresses  its  heartfelt  and  most  rej-pectful  sympathy 
with  the  family  of  the  deceased,  and  that  a  copy  of  these  resolutions,  suitably  engrossed 
and  attested,  shall  be  transmitted  to  Mrs.  Grant.     *     *     * 


OBITUARY. 

Odell.— Pierre  Odell,  Esq.,  died  at  Hastings,  Westchester  County,  N.  Y.,  on  Thurs- 
day, July  30,  1885.     His  ancestry  may  be  traced  as  follows  : 

Mr.  William  (i)  Odell,  the  first  of  the  family  in  this  country,  was  at  Concord,  Mass., 
in  1639.  He  probably  came  to  New  England  with  the  Rev.  Peter  Bulkeley,  who  was 
rector  of  the  parish  of  Odell,  in  Bedfordshire,  England,  in  1620.     Mr.   Bulkeley's  wife 


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was  Grace,  daughter  of  Sir  Richard  Chetwood,  and  granddaughter  of  Agnes  Wodhull  or 
Odell — the  names  being  the  same — who  married  Richard  Chetwood,  Esq.,  father  of  Sir 
Richard.  The  Odell  family  had  been  settled  in  Bedfordshire  for  many  generations  and 
it  is  probable  that  Mr.  William  '  Odell  was  a  resident  of  that  part  of  England.  He' died 
at  Fairfield,  Conn.,  in  June,  1676. 

William  -  Odell,  Jr.,  his  son,  was  of  Fairfield,  and  afterward  of  Rye,  N.  Y.,  where 
he  owned  a  large  estate.  His  wife  was  the  daughter  of  Richard  Vowles,  Esq.,  of  Fair- 
field, member  of  the  Colonial  Assembly  in  1665-8-9.  From  this  William'''  Odell,  Jr., 
Pierre  Odell  was  descended  in  the  line  of  John  ^,  of  Fordham,  N.  Y.,  whose  wife  was 
Johanna  Turner  ;  John*,  Jr.,  of  Fordham,  whose  wife  was  Hannah  Vermilyea  ;  Jona- 
than %  of  Greenburgh,  N.  Y.,  whose  wife  was  Margaret  Dyckman  ;  Colonel  John  s,  of 
Greenburgh,  whose  wife  was  Abigail  Browne  ;  Colonel  Jackson  \  of  Greenburgh,  whose 
wife  was  Anna  Ward. 

Mr.  Pierre  *  Odell's  father.  Colonel  Jackson  Odell,  graduated  from  Columbia  Col- 
lege in  the  class  of  1814,  and  during  the  war  of  1812  served  on  the  staff  of  Major  Gen- 
eral Pierre  Van  Cortlandt,  having  received  his  commission  from  General  Clinton. 

He  married  Anna,  daughter  of  Bartholomew  and  Elizabeth  (Bonnet)  Ward,  and 
granddaughter  of  the  Hon.  Stephen  Ward,  Judge  of  Westchester  County. 

Judge  Ward's  father  was  Edmund  Ward,  Esq.,  member  of  the  Colonial  Assembly, 
son  of  Edmund  Ward,  of  Fairfield,  Conn.,  and  grandson  of  Andrew  Ward,  Esq. ,  of 
the  same  place,  who  was  magistrate  in  1636. 

This  Andrew  Ward  was  origuially  of  Watertown,  Mass.,  where  he  was  made  freeman 
in  1634. 

Mr.  Pierre  Odell  was  born  November  i,  1828,  in  the  old  family  homestead,  situated 
near  Hart's  Corners,  in  the  town  of  Greenburgh.  This  house,  which  is  still  standing,  has 
some  historical  interest  as  having  been  the  headquarters  of  the  Count  de  Rochambeau 
during  the  war  of  the  Revolution. 

Mr.  Odell  received  a  business  education  during  the  early  years  of  his  life,  but  after- 
ward engaged  in  teaching. 

He  was  much  interested  in  agricultural  pursuits,  and  attained  considerable  eminence 
as  a  horticulturist. 

He  was  a  life  member  of  the  American  Institute,  and  travelled  extensively  through 
the  South  and  West,  investigating  the  condition  of  the  fruit  lands. 

Mr.  Odell  was  possessed  of  good  literary  ability,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was 
engaged  on  a  biography  of  the  Patriot  Guides  of  the  Revolution. 

He  had  the  acquaintance  of  many  distinguished  men  during  his  lifetime,  and  his  fine 
conversational  powers  and  genial  manners  made  him  many  friends. 

He  was  greatly  interested  in  politics,  and  took  an  active  part  in  the  late  presidential 
campaign . 

Mr.  Odell  leaves  a  brother,  William  Dyckman  Odell,  and  two  sisters,  Mrs.  Margaret 
King,  of  Montgomery,  N.  Y.,  and  Miss  Elizabeth  Odell.  RuFUS  King. 

PiERREPONT. — William  Constable  Pierrepont  died  on  Sunday  evening,  December  20, 
1885,  at  his  home,  Pierrepont  Manor,  Jefferson  County,  N.  Y.,  at  the  age  of  eighty-two. 
A  descendant  of  one  of  the  old  patroons,  he  inlierited  large  estates  in  the  northwestern 
part  of  New  York,  on  the  borders  of  Jefferson  and  Oswego  Counties,  and  he  decided 
early  in  life  to  devote  himself  solely  to  the  care  of  them,  instead  of  moving  to  Brooklyn, 
in  company  with  others  of  his  family.  His  long  but  quiet  life  was  therefore  passed,  with 
but  slight  intermissions,  at  his  home  in  Jefferson  County.  He  was  a  director  in  the 
County  Bank  and  the  other  institutions  near  his  home.  His  name,  however,  is  best  known 
in  connection  with  the  building  of  railroads  in  that  region.  He  was  the  president  of  the 
Rome,  Watertown  &  Ogdensburg  Railroad  for  a  number  of  years.  He  was  a  devoted 
adherent  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church.  Hobart  College  in  1871  conferred  on  him 
the  degree  of  LL.D.  He  built  and  endowed  a  church  near  his  residence,  and  another  at 
Canaseraga,  as  a  memorial  of  his  youngest  son.  He  contributed  largely  to  the  diocese 
of  Minnesota,  and  endowed  scholarships  in  the  General  Theological  Seminary  of  this 
city,  and  also  in  Hobart  College,  Geneva.  Mr.  Pierrepont  was  a  gentleman  of  culture 
and  much  reading,  proverbially  honorable  and  upright,  and  of  broad  views.  He  leaves  a 
large  family,  some  of  whom  are  living  in  this  city  and  Brooklyn.  His  brother,  Henry  E. 
Pierrepont,  of  No.  i  Pierrepont  Place,  Brooklyn,  is  one  of  the  largest  holders  of  real 
estate  in  that  city.  Mr.  Pierrepont's  funeral  took  place  on  Wednesday,  December  23, 
and  was  largely  attended  by  many  prominent  persons.  j.  g.  w. 

Van  Buren. — In  the  recent  death  of  Colonel  John  D.  van  Buren,  at  Newburgh,  N.Y., 
on  the  1st  of  December,  an  old  Knickerbocker  family  loses  one  of  its  most  prominent 


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representatives.  He  was  born  in  this  city  in  i8ii,  was  graduated  at  Columbia  College 
in  1829,  and  studied  law  in  the  office  of  Hugh  Maxwell.  He  abandoned  the  law  for 
commerce,  and  became  a  partner  in  the  well-known  shipping  house  of  Aymar  &  Co. , 
with  which  he  was  associated  until  about  1850,  when  he  retired  to  a  farm  at  New  Wind- 
sor, in  Orange  County.  He  became  engaged  in  politics  as  a  member  of  the  Democratic 
party;  was  a  Member  of  Assembly  in  1863,  and  held  other  positions.  He  derived  his 
title  of  colonel  from  having  been  appointed  Paymaster  of  the  State  Troops  with  that 
rank  by  Governor  Seymour.  Colonel  van  Buren  married  Miss  Elvira  L.  Aymar,  eldest 
daughter  of  the  late  Benjamin  Aymar,  an  eminent  merchant  of  this  city,  by  his  wife, 
Miss  Elizabeth  van  Buren,  of  the  same  family  as  the  colonel.  Colonel  van  Buren  leaves 
three  sons — Aymar  van  Buren,  of  New  Windsor,  who  married  Margaret,  daughter  of 
the  late  Edmund  Morton,  a  son  of  General  Jacob  Morton,  a  prominent  member  of  New 
York  society  in  the  early  part  of  the  present  century,  whose  house  in  State  Street  was 
the  scene  of  an  elegant  ball  which  he  gave  to  Lafayette  in  1824  :  John  Dash  van  Buren, 
State  Engineer  1876-78,  who  married  Elizabeth  Ludlow,  daughter  of  the  late  Samuel 
T.  Jones,  and  descended  maternally  from  the  old  family  of  Ludlow  :  Robert  van  Buren, 
Chief  Engineer  of  the  Brooklyn  Water  Works,  who  married  Louisa,  daughter  of  the 
late  Samuel  Aymar  :  and  a  daughter,  Mrs.  White.  It  may  not  be  inappropriate  to  in- 
troduce a  slight  sketch  of  the  van  Burens  here,  as  it  has  never  appeared  in  print.  This 
family  has  furnished  a  number  of  physicians  to  this  State,  the  most  prominent  of  whom 
in  recent  times  was  the  late  William.  H.  van  Buren,  of  this  city,  who  was  a  distant 
relative  of  Colonel  John  D.  van  Buren.  This  particular  family  is  not  known  to  be  con- 
nected with  the  van  Burens  of  Kinderhook,  of  whom  was  the  late  President  Martin  van 
Buren.  Its  earliest  known  ancestor  was  Dr.  John  van  Buren,  born  in  1678,  who  came 
from  Amsterdam,  in  Holland,  to  New  York  City,  in  1700,  became  one  of  the  principal 
physicians  of  the  latter  city,  and  died  about  1757.  He  married  a  lady  who  was  related 
to  the  old  and  prominent  family  of  van  Home.  Through  this  alliance  the  van  Burens 
are  related  to  the  McEvers,  Bayards,  and  other  noted  families.  The  descendants  of  Dr. 
John  van  Buren  have,  for  some  unknown  reason,  generally  spelled  their  name  van  Beureti. 
Dr.  John  van  Buren  had  with  other  issue — Dr.  Henry  van  Beuren,  born  1725,  of  whom 
later,  and  Dr.  Beekman  van  Beuren,  born  1732,  who  was  for  many  years  a  physician  in 
this  city,  and  died  about  1800.  He  had  three  wives,  Hyltje,  daughter  of  William  de 
Peyster  and  Margaret  Roosevelt,  a  Miss  Gilbert,  and  a  Miss  Vrelandt,  and  was  father 
of  Michael  van  Beuren,  born  1786,  a  merchant  in  this  city,  who  died  in  1854.  He 
married  Miss  Anne  Dash,  and  was  father  of  Colonel  John  D.  van  Buren,  the  subject  of 
this  notice.  Mrs.  Colonel  van  Buren's  ancestor  was  Dr.  Henry  van  Beuren,  previously 
mentioned,  born  1725,  who  removed  to  Flatbush,  Kings  Co.,  Long  Island,  where  he 
practised  his  profession.  He  was  a  Tory  during  the  Revolution,  and  died  in  1797.  He 
married  Miss  Catherine  van  Voorhees,  whose  sister,  Miss  Mary  van  Voorhees,  married 
Peter  Du  Bois  and  was  mother  of  Cornelius  Du  Bois,  a  wealthy  merchant  of  this  city,  who 
died  in  1846.  He  married  Miss  Sarah  P.  Ogden,  niece  of  Governor  Aaron  Ogden,  of 
New  Jersey,  and  aunt  of  Governor  Daniel  Haines,  of  the  same  State,  and  had  issue  who 
intermarried  with  the  Delafields,  Jays,  Wagstaffs,  and  other  prominent  families.  Mrs. 
Peter  Du  Bois  married  secondly.  Dr.  Theodorus  van  Wyck,  of  Dutchess  Co.,  a  prominent 
patriot  during  the  Revolution,  uncle  of  General  Theodorus  Bailey,  United  States  Senator 
from  New  York,  1803-4,  and  of  Elizabeth  Bailey,  who  married  Chancellor  Kent.  Dr. 
and  Mrs.  van  Wyck  had  a  daughter,  Mrs.  Peter  A.  Mesier,  of  this  city.  The  Misses  van 
Voorhees,  previously  mentioned,  were  granddaughters  of  Colonel  Henry  Filkin,  an  Eng- 
lish gentleman,  who  came  to  New  York  City  in  1680,  and  afterward  removed  to  Brook- 
lyn, and  Flatbush,  L.  I.,  where  he  became  one  of  the  leading  men.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Colonial  Assembly,  Lieutenant-colonel  of  militia,  etc.,  and  a  large  landed  pro- 
prietor in  Dutchess  County,  and  died  in  1713.  His  son,  Francis  Filkin,  a  wealthy  merchant 
and  alderman  of  this  city,  died  in  1781,  and  was  father  of  Helen  Filkin,  who  married  the 
Hon.  John  Vanderbilt  (of  an  old  Dutch  family  at  Flatbush),  a  wealthy  merchant  of  this 
city  and  a  patriot  during  the  Revolution  ;  Delegate  to  the  New  York  Provincial  Conven- 
tion 1775)  ^"^^  ^^  ^^  first,  second,  and  third  Provincial  Congresses  1775-6;  also  a  Mem- 
ber of  Assembly  and  State  Senator;  who  died  in  1796.  Their  daughter,  Mrs.  Charles 
Clarkson,  has  descendants  at  Flatbush.  The  family  of  Filkin  is  of  considerable  antiquity 
in  England,  and  held  the  estate  of  Fattenhall  in  Cheshire  as  far  back  as  the  fifteenth  cen- 
tury. Dr.  Henry  van  Beuren  and  Catherine  van  Voorhees  were  parents  of  Coertland 
van  Beuren,  born  1759,  ^  wealthy  resident  of  Brooklyn.  He  was  an  old  time  Democrat, 
one  of  the  early  sachems  of  the  Tammany  Society  prior  to  iSco,  a  friend  of  President 
van  Buren,  and  died  in  1820.     He  had  a  son,  Engelbert  K.  van  Beuren,  who  died  some 


5o  Donations  to  the  Library.  [Jan.,  1886. 

years  ago,  and  several  daughters — Catherine  van  Beuren,  born  1786,  died  at  Flatbush  in 
1849,  married  John  Hasbrook,  a  merchant  of  this  city,  who  died  in  1820,  and  is  repre- 
sented by  the  children  of  her  son,  the  late  Coertland  V.  B.  Hasbrook,  and  by  those  of 
her  daughter,  the  late  Mrs.  John  H.  Haldane :  Anne  van  Beuren,  born  1789,  died  1827, 
who  married  Brockholst  Livingston,  a  lawyer  of  this  city,  died  in  1832,  grandson  of  Gov- 
ernor William  Livingston,  of  New  Jersey,  and  had  no  issue  :  and  Elizabeth  van  Beuren,  born 
1 79 1,  died  1843,  married  Benjamin  Ay  mar,  an  eminent  merchant  of  this  city,  who  died 
in  1876,  and  was  mother  of  Mrs.  Colonel  John  D.  van  Buren,  Augustus  Aymar,  Mrs. 
Joseph  Gaillard,  Jr.,  Mrs.  Samuel  S.  Sands,  and  Edmund  B.  Aymar.  Ursus. 


DONATIONS  TO  THE  LIBRARY. 

Received  from   October,   1885,  to  January,   1886. 

From  R.  E.  and  C.T.  King.  Marriages,  Baptisms,  and  Burials,  Dutch  Reformed  Church, 
Austin  Friars,  London.     Edited  by  W.  J.  C.  Moens.     4to.     London,  1884. 

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THE   NEW   YORK 


Vol.   XVII.  NEW  YORK,   APRIL,   1886.  No. 


CORNELIUS  AND  WILLIAM  H.  VANDERBILT. 

(Witk  tit'o  Portraits.) 

By  William  H.  Bog  art. 

The  men  we  name  above  made,  in  their  day  of  action,  such  strong 
impression  on  their  time,  on  its  leading  and  controlling  interests,  and  so 
identified  their  opinion  of  the  past — their  judgment  of  what  was  to  be,  their 
decision  and  rule  of  what  was  in  their  influence  and  control — that  their 
names  ceased  in  a  large  measure  to  be  individual  and  personal,  and  rose  to 
be  that  of  an  idea,  of  a  situation  in  the  affairs  of  men. 

Of  that  situation  they  were  unquestionably  masters.  They  met — as  all 
men  in  the  front  rank  ever  had  done,  and  as  it  always  will  be — the  con- 
flicting action,  the  differing  way,  the  adverse  thought,  of  the  other  actors 
in  the  important  field  where  they  led.  They  were  in  a  more  difficult  posi- 
tion than  are  those  who  rule  communities  in  organized  constitutional  form, 
because  the  latter  create  the  law.  To  that  law  all  wise  men  frame  their 
action.  It  is  not  always  of  patriotism,  but  it  is  of  sagacity.  Fortunately 
in  States  like  our  own,  and  in  a  period  of  civilization  like  that  which  guards 
us,  if  the  law  is  unwise,  or  unjust,  or  oppressive,  the  laws  themselves  carry 
with  them  the  right  of  earnest  and  permitted  effort  for  their  change.  Such 
extraordinary  power  and  wealth  in  men  of  one  family,  and  with  clear 
probability  of  continuance,  deserves  a  memorial  in  these  pages. 

We  look  back  to  see  if  we  can  learn  from  local  annals  or  genealogies 
the  causes  which  form  later  individuality ;  and  while  all  history  teaches  us 
that  families  really  begin  from  those  who  place  the  name  in  front  of  their 
contemporaries,  it  is  at  least  an  interesting  inquiry  to  see  from  among 
whom  these  leaders  passed  to  the  front. 

Cornelius  Vanderbilt  was  of  the  old  Netherlands  (Holland)  people, 
who  began  to  come  to  America  in  1609,  and  here  they  remain  in  increased 
strengtli  ;  and  to-day,  when  New  York  and  New  Jersey  call  the  roll  of 
those  who  have  understood  and  touched,  and  with  master-hand  brought 
forth,  the  force  of  mental  and  physical  strength,  it  will  be  found  that  the 
names  respond  which  would  not  have  needed  interpretation  in  the  hearing 
of  the  Stadtholder, 

When  Hendrick  Hudson  returned  from  his  most  successful  voyage  in 
the  Half-Moon,  having  accomplished  the  discovery  and  exploration  of 
the  River  of  the  Mountains,  this  impressive  philosophical  fact  in  history 


62  Cornelius  and  William  H.   Vanderbilt.  [April, 

was  evolved  :  He  brought  to  ruler  and  to  people  no  report  of  sudden 
pathway  to  wealth,  unless  by  the  fur  traffic — no  wonders  of  gold  to  be  had 
for  the  asking  ;  the  savages  he  had  seen  excited  no  envy  of  ornament. 
He  had  found  a  great,  pure  stream,  on  which  the  very  vessel  in  which  he 
had  crossed  the  sea  could  sail,  and  plain  and  mountain  on  its  sides  ;  but 
there  was  everywhere  the  necessity  to  win  whatever  the  chase  or  the  tillage 
might  promise  by  exertion,  by  courage,  against  obstacle  of  nature  or  man. 
To  that  school  and  that  education  the  Half-Moon's  voyage  was  to  lead  the 
Netherlanders,  who  heard  from  captain  and  crew  of  the  highlands  and  har- 
bors, the  shores  to  be  occupied,  the  place  on  the  earth  where  the  Spaniard 
could  be  escaped  from,  and  they  not  hear  the  sound  of  war  any  more. 

Out  of  this  philosophy  of  adventure  the  fathers  of  those  of  us  who  look 
back  to  the  Seven  Provinces  as  our  ancestral  home  wrought  what  is  to-day 
before  and  around  us.  Names  have  changed  or  been  obliterated,  yet 
many  remain  ;  manners  have  softened  ;  the  gentler  aid  of  wide  thought 
has  modified  the  rule  of  work ;  but  through  the  generations,  the  Hollander 
who  found  that  he  must  keep  by  the  strong  hand  that  to  which  his  strong 
sense  had  brought  him,  is  represented  by  whatever  guild,  or  "  street,"  or 
association,  or  corporation,  or  individual  place,  our  matured  judgment  has 
created  out  of  our  civilization.  The  wondering  Dutchman  (as  we  now  call 
him),  from  Guelderland  or  Utrecht,  who  came  in  the  seventeenth  century, 
is  here  in  the  capitalist-laborer  of  the  nineteenth. 

History,  written  after  the  passage  of  long  years,  is  but  the  painted 
scenery  and  the  actors  in  studied  attitudes.  In  the  truth,  the  men  at  that 
day  acted  as  we  do — the  leader  sought  to  preserve  his  power,  and  the  men 
he  brought  around  him,  to  gain  the  most  for  the  least  exertion. 

Pauw  and  Melyns,  and  whoever  else  made  acquisition  in  earlier  years 
of  the  country  around  the  great  harbor  and  river  Hudson  had  found,  led 
the  way  of  our  own  life  of  to-day.  When  the  India  Company  offered  a 
"  patroon's"  authority  to  any  one  who  could  settle  on  his  land  fifty  colo- 
nists over  fifteen  years  of  age,  it  was  the  forerunner  of  the  pleasant  prom- 
ises made  to-day  by  the  great  corporate  owners  of  the  land-grants  over  and 
through  which  there  comes  the  building  up  of  States. 

The  land  immediately  around  the  harbor  which  the  Half-Moon  had 
entered  in  1609  was  the  easier  road  to  reach  for  the  enterprise  of  those 
who  came  where  Hudson  had  led  the  way  ;  and  as  nature  keeps  her  great 
landmarks,  even  now  we  can  see  in  degree,  as  they  saw,  the  availability  of 
the  islands.  The  people  desired  to  be  as  near  "home"  as  possible — it 
was  their  market — and  as  long  as  the  old  associations  remained,  it  was  to 
the  infrequent  ship  that  their  thought,  as  well  as  their  interest,  centred. 
Did  ever  two  centuries  and  a  half  make  more  remarkable  transformation  of 
the  wilderness  to  the  rose,  the  savage  to  the  scholar,  the  boat-load  of  ad- 
venturous sailors  to  the  fifty  millions  of  a  powerful  people  ?  This  was  the 
chapter  of  which  Hudson's  voyage  was  the  illuminated  letter.  From  (van) 
der  Bilt,  or  Bylt,  the  hill,  came,  about  1650,  Jan  (John)  Aertsen  Van  der 
Bilt,  the  common  ancestor  of  the  family.*     It  is  small  wonder  that  in  Hol- 

*  Jan  Aoertsen  Vandcr  Bildt,  married  Dierber  Cornelius.  He  married  three  times.  The  second  wife  is 
assumed  to  have  been  the  ancestress,  as  the  name  Cornehus  is  repeated  in  the  family. 

2.  Jacob  Janse  (son  of  John),  married,  August  13,  1687,  Maritje  (Mary)  Vander  Vliet  (of  the  stream). 

3.  Jacob,  junior,  born  1692  ;  bought  farm  on  Staten  Island,  lyiS,  whence  he  had  removed  from  Flatbush, 
J,.  I.  It  will  be  seen  how  long  a  time  the  Vanderbilts  have  been  associated  with  the  island.  He  connected 
hunself  with  the  Moravian  Church  ;  married  Neeltje  (Cornelia)  Denyse. 

4.  Jacob,  born  1723  ;   married  Mary  Hoogland. 

5.  Cornelius  ;  married  Phoebe  Hand,  February  3,  1787. 

6.  The  Cornelius  Vanderbilt  of  this  sketch  was  their  son. —  [Editors.] 


1 886. J  Cornelius  and  William  H.  Vanderbilt.  g-^ 

land,  if  a  rise  of  ground  out  of  the  wet  prairie  land  is  found,  it  should  find 
territorial  recognition. 

When  he  arrived,  Director  Stuyvesant  was  in  power,  and  his  was  an 
affirmative  and  decided  supervision  of  affairs;  but  just  about  these  years 
he  was  conducting  a  negotiation  with  the  English  authorities,  and  with 
quite  a  full  suite  he  proceeded  to  Hartford.  Indeed,  between  the  Con- 
necticut and  Massachusetts  people,  the  Indians,  the  cares  of  the  colony, 
the  perplexities  of  a  new  people,  and  the  uneasiness  that  doth  encircle  even 
a  colonial  crown,  Stuyvesant  had  either  the  happiness  or  the  troubles  that 
come  out  of  incessant  occupation  ;  while  up  the  beautiful  bay,  in  the  shel- 
ter of  the  nature-guarded  harbor,  with  perhaps  doubtful  heart  as  to  what' 
might  be  his  success  in  establishing  a  home  for  himself  on  these  shores, 
these  islands,  the  adventurous  Hollander  from  de  Bildt  came.  A  few  years 
beyond  the  two  centuries  pass,  and  the  descendant  of  Madame  Bayard, 
Stuyvesant's  sister,  occupies,  next  to  the  Presidency,  perhaps  the  most  im- 
portant place  in  the  nation ;  the  descendants  of  that  Vanderbilt,  although 
private  citizens,  influence  the  values,  have  their  part  in  determining  the 
prosperity,  of  those  who  in  a  land  of  active  people  so  strongly  affect  its 
life. 

Whoever  has  visited  the  city  of  Utrecht  in  Holland,  and  has  been  able 
to  tear  himself  away  from  listening  to  that  delightful  carillon  which  in  the 
lofty  tower  is  sending  forth  its  music  in  generous  memory  of  all  the  greater 
and  lesser  divisions  of  time,  can  readily  find  a  pleasant  episode  of  journey 
by  taking  the  old-time  coach  from  the  White  Woman  Inn,  and  it  is  but  a 
brief  drive — all  travelling  in  Holland  is  brief — and  we  pass  through  the 
quiet  village  of  Bildt.  No  New  Yorker  makes,  in  these  days,  such  ex- 
plorations but  that  he  is  likely  to  exclaim — de  Bildt  !  Van  de  Bildt  !  The 
land  home-name  reveals  itself  at  once,  and  explains  the  nomenclature  of  a 
large  and  influential  class  of  his  fellow-citizens.  The  recent  development 
of  antiquarian  taste  and  conservation  of  genealogy  in  our  own  city,  in  the 
newly  formed  Holland  Society,  proves  how  largely  the  "  Van  "  is  herald  of 
Netherland  ancestry.  What  noble  place  of  result,  wrought  out  by  power 
of  man's  thought  and  action,  it  has  won  among  us,  reaching  even  to  the 
Presidency  ! 

From  de  Bildt  it  is  but  a  few  miles  to  Zeyst,  where  there  is  a  Moravian 
church  associated  with  Zinzendorf  We  name  it  here  because  it  will  be 
appropriate  hereafter  to  refer  to  affluent  generosity  bestowed,  by  the  de- 
scendants of  the  man  who  left  de  Bildt  for  his  far,  fai-oft",  wild,  and  advent- 
urous home,  on  the  church  of  Zinzendorf,  which  had  found  fast  abidino-- 
place  in  the  beautiful  island  in  which  the  benefactors  passed  portions  of 
their  li^'e  ;  so  the  threads  of  our  actions  are  braided  long  before  they  come 
to  us,  and  are  with  us  in  the  positive  issues  of  life. 

Cornelius  Vanderbilt  was  born  on  the  beautiful  island  to  which  his  fore- 
fathers came,  and  a  brief  distance  from  Stapleton  Landing,  iMay  27,  1794 
— a  long,  long  time  in  the  past,  in  view  of  the  strong  impression  and  con- 
stant presence  of  his  influence  over  men  in  our  own  immediate  time.  The 
attention  of  a  young  boy  having  his  home  in  the  country,  and  not  with  the 
surroundings  that  would  be  likely  to  turn  his  thought  to  anything  else  than 
the  actual  facts  of  life,  would  not  understand  the  value  of  the  men  and 
events  which  those  years  presented.  To  us  they  are  of  the  intensely  inter- 
esting time  of  trial  to  the  republic,  whether,  even  under  the  guidance  of 
Washington  and  Adams  and  Jefferson,  it  was  the  best  form  of  government 


64  Cornelius  and  William  H.  Vanderbilt.  [April, 

to  man.  To  the  young  boy  of  the  Staten  Island  farm  all  this  was  of  an 
outside  world.  He  had  his  brief  measure  of  schooling,  as  the  phrase  is, 
but  it  was  the  education  which  he  could  use  practically  ;  and,  as  we  see  its 
results,  was  what  we  might  express  as  a  small  collection  of  tools  in  the 
hands  of  a  very  skilful  workman.  Looking  back  at  his  boyhood,  we  see 
he  was  in  the  education  of  circumstances  which  to  some  men  are  intelligi- 
ble volumes.  His  mother  encouraged  him  to  labor,  and  he  followed  the 
good  counsel ;  and  all  this  is  but  the  recital  of  the  incidents  of  the  lives  of 
very  many  successful  men.  Our  existence  is  not  cast  metal,  but  ham- 
mered iron,  and  the  best  blow  given  is  often  by  the  unexpected  incident  of 
the  hour.  Agassiz  said  the  data  of  geology  were  the  discoveries  of  the 
morning.  Mr.  Vanderbilt's  preparation  for  his  phenomenal  success  in  life 
was  the  sight  of  the  water  and  the  sails  before  his  island  home.  He  be- 
lieved that  the  book  for  his  study  was  there,  and  he  soon  made  it  gilt- 
edged.  He  desired  to  possess  a  vessel  of  his  own,  even  if  it  were  a  small 
one.  That  which  he  obtained  was  designated  as  a  periauger,  the  Spanish 
pirague,  and  so  the  word  was  spelled  by  Washington  and  Jefferson,  as  the 
craft  was  known  to  them  ;  Charlevoix  knew  it  as  pirogue — a  canoe  formed 
out  of  the  trunk  of  a  tree,  or  two  canoes  united  ;  in  modern  usage,  a  nar- 
row ferry-boat,  two-masted,  and  with  a  leeboard.*  He  found  in  the  traffic 
and  passage  between  the  island  and  New  York — with  its  then  beautiful 
breathing-space,  the  Battery — profitable  employment.  The  incidents  of 
the  war  of  18 12-15  which  met  his  boyhood  days  were  made  occasion  of 
adventure  and  profit  by  him,  and  the  daring  sailor  taught  those  who  sailed 
with  him  that  he  had  both  skill  and  courage.  New  York  was  an  exposed 
city.  Many  years  before  this,  Lord  Nel,son  had  been  told,  when  off  our 
coast  on  duty,  that  it  was  a  good  station  for  prize  money.  The  truths  of 
the  past  may  be  vividly  true  to-day.  The  war  brought  him  business,  and 
he  increased  his  adventures,  being  interested  in  larger  craft  and  longer 
voyages  ;  for  now  he  saw  beyond  the  island  and  its  environs,  and  the  life 
of  the  far-seeing  man,  in  more  than  restricted  meaning,  began.  When  the 
year  181  7  closed  he  was  proprietor  of  an  interest  in  sailing-vessels,  and  a 
capitalist  to  the  extent  of  nine  thousand  dollars.  We  may  doubt  if  even 
his  keen  sight  saw  its  multiplied  millions. 

When  only  a  little  beyond  nineteen  years  of  age  he  married  Miss  Sophia 
Johnson,  of  his  immediate  kindred — a  union  which  continued  beyond  the 
golden  commemoration  ;  and  which,  while  it  partook  of  the  heat  and  bur- 
den of  the  earlier  day,  lived  to  share  the  prosperity  and  opulence  of  later 
days.  The  family  that  gathered  under  his  roof-tree  Avas  additional  reason 
for  his  energy,  and  he  provided  for  all.  The  details  of  private  life  belong 
to  that  "  castle,"  as  Chatham  called  it,  which  is  sheltered  by  the  curtain  and 
the  wall  from  all  but  those  who  have  the  kindlier  keys  that  belong  to  love 
and  friendship. 

Mr.  Vanderbilt  soon  became  interested  in  the  steam  navigation  around 
New  York,  and  made  another  departure  in  business,  in  degree  such  as 
afterward  he  did  when  he  left  the  wave  for  the  rail.     This  time  he  dropped 

*  "At  the  age  of  sixteen,"  says  the  Merchants'  Magazine  of  January,  1865,  "  he  made  the  necessary  effort 
to  obtain  business,  and  succeeded  wonderfully.  At  that  time  the  fortifications  of  Staten  and  Long  Islands 
were  being  built  by  Government,  and  the  carrying  of  laborers  to  and  from  New  York  furnished  work  for 
him  and  his  periauger  which  was  quite  remunerative.  Amid,  however,  these  first  successes,  one  fact  troub- 
led him.  The  money  that  bought  his  boat  came  from  his  mother,  and  this  being  so,  he  could  not  feel  that 
perfect  independence  his  spirit  craved.  Day  by  day,  therefore,  from  his  first  earnings,  he  scrupulously  laid 
by  every  penny  that  could  be  saved,  for  the  purpose  of  returning  this  sum,  and  but  a  little  while  elapsed  be- 
fore he  quietly  placed  in  his  mother's  lap  the  hundred  dollars.  Probably  a  happier,  prouder  child  never 
lived  than  Cornelius  Vanderbilt  at  that  moment,  and  he  had  certainly  won  the  right  to  be  so." — [Editors.] 


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the  sail  and  went  to  the  steam-chest,  and,  paraphrasing  what  was  said  by  one 
eminent  writer  of  another,  he  touched  nothing  but  that  in  it  he  succeeded. 
He  became  something  more  than  of  the  rank  and  file  of  steamboat  men, 
and  sought  larger  space  for  his  energies,  and  found  it  on  Long  Island 
Sound  and  the  Hudson  River  ;  and  now  was  recognized  as  a  leader,  whose 
appearance  i)\  the  rivalry  seemed  prelude  to  taking  the  lead.  ■. 

In  Mr.  Cornelius  Vanderbilt' s  boyhood  days,  the  navigation  by  steam, 
the  coming  of  an  almost  illimitable  power,  was  introduced  to  the  notice 
of  mankind  by  the  successful  voyage  of  the  Clermont  ;  or,  as  an  adver- 
tisement of  1807  before  us  designates  the  vessel,  ''  the  steamboat."  It 
was  an  era  of  one  of  the  great  revolutions  of  human  affairs.  Henceforth, 
the  difficulties  which  tide  and  wind  had  placed  as  impediments  to  the  rapid 
neighborhood  of  man  to  man  were  to  be  lessened.  We  have  lived  to  see 
them  almost  disappear.  Robert  Fulton  and  Chancellor  Livingston  had 
won  the  victory  of  science,  and  their  own  State  of  New  York  decreed  that 
a  skill  so  great  should  find  its  reward  in  the  exclusive  use  of  the  new  power. 
They  met  the  fate  of  the  benefactors  of  mankind.  Whether  just  those 
words  were  then  in  use,  which  are  now  the  current  coin  of  the  demagogue, 
the  staple  of  editorials,  the  very  blare  of  legislative  halls,  perhaps  not  so 
loudly  proclaimed  before  the  dignity  of  judicial  tribunals — the  monopolist, 
the  special  privilege,  and  the  other  variations  on  the  same  chord — whether 
this  color  blazed  in  that  litigation  or  not,  we  do  not  know.  It  is,  we  be- 
lieve, an  authentic  incident,  that  the  distinguished  counsellor,  Thomas  Addis 
Emmet,  when  arguing  for  the  patentees  in  the  old  Court  of  Errors,  and 
replying  to  the  doctrine  that  there  was  a  coasting  question  in  the  case, 
said,  so  far  as  the  Hudson  River  navigation  was  concerned,  it  was  more 
properly  a  banking  question.  Before  the  decision  of  the  United  States 
Judiciary  the  authority  of  New  York  to  grant  exclusive  jurisdiction  was  set 
aside,  and  the  liberty  of  paddle-wheels  established.  We  may  well  ask  why 
the  State  of  New  York  did  not  remunerate  its  children  for  the  inestimable 
benefits  1S07  had  brought  to  its  waters? 

The  gold  particles  that  glittered  in  the  California  mill-race  formed  the 
Pharos  to  which  a  great  revolution  of  man's  activity  turned  for  guidance. 
For  a  time  it  was  a  veritable  Age  of  Gold,  and  never  magnetic  needle 
turned  more  truly  than  did  the  fortune-seeking  traveller's;  but  the  gold- 
fields  were  a  far-off  cry  from  the  Atlantic  coast.  They  belonged  to  another 
ocean,  an^i  diC  long  way  around  must  be  taken.  The  Indian  had  his  old 
ideas  of  direct  opi-osition  in  uncomfortable  ways  as  to  the  mountain 
route,  an-i  it  seemed  too  formidable,  and,  besides,  too  slow — somebody  else 
might  gaiiicr  the  dust  before  we  could  reach  it  "  overland."  Mr.  Vander- 
bilt personally  visited  the  Nicaragua  transit,  and  formed  his  judgment  in  its 
favor,  notwithstanding  the  existence  of  the  Panama.  He  followed  his  own 
counsel,  made  practical  and  most  profitable  use  of  the  new  line,  in  whose 
establishment  liis  great  determination  was  of  such  strong  effect ;  but  after 
a  time  he  sold  thi.t  venture,  and,  with  a  new  impulse  in  his  life,  determined 
to  take  som«;  rest.  It  was  wise  he  should  rest.  There  was  a  great  work  for 
the  future,  on  which  he  had  not  yet  entered.  This  was  in  1853.  The 
boy-owner  of  the  periauger  had  gone  through  the  hard  work  and  sharp 
thoug:  t  of  the  making  of  his  fortune.  It  was  made  ;  he  was  wealthy — and 
it  on'y  establisli'is  his  great  reputation  for  good  sense  that  he  determined 
to  tarvC  hifi  vaciuion  in  the  manner  of  a  man  who  could  take  it  superbly. 

In   th'i   North   Star,    an   ocean   steamship,  in  full   convenience   and 


66  Cornelius  and  William  H.  Vanderhilt.  \k^x\\, 

equipment,  this  man,  a  private  citizen,  who  had  in  even  succession  of  his 
career  of  enterprise  demonstrated  his  abiHty,  made  such  a  voyage  to 
the  Old  World  as  would  have  been  in  the  past  associated  with  the  progress 
of  princes.  Gathering  his  family  and  a  few  friends,  he  went  from  one 
country  to  another,  the  people  and  the  authorities,  if,  indeed,  the  latter 
could  dissever  the  idea  of  such  state  from  some  national  purpose,  wonder- 
ing and  admiring.  Are  these  the  possibilities  of  a  republic  ?  Already 
it  seemed  to  have  passed  the  age  of  simplicity,  and  to  be  a  rival  in  luxury 
as  in  power  to  the  kingdoms  of  the  Old  World.  In  England  such  pros- 
perity could  be  appreciated  as  the  very  sensible  idea  of  the  enjoyment  by 
a  prominent  citizen  of  his  wealth.  It  was  to  Mr.  Vanderbilt  the  luxurious 
side  of  the  sea-life  which  in  courage  and  hard  work  he  had  in  his  small 
ferry-craft  pursued  so  long  between  the  islands  in  the  harbor  of  New  York. 
It  gave  him  the  broad  ocean  view  of  the  world,  and  it  was  a  kind  and  wise 
gift  to  his  children.  He  was  founding  a  family,  and  to  give  them  breadth 
of  observation  and  that  personal  witness  of  man  and  his  work  from  which 
comes  education.  The  school-house  was  costly,  but  it  was  all  his  own,  and 
he  called  his  own  to  its  enjoyment.* 

We  doubt  whether  Mr.  Vanderbilt  did  not  sometimes  conjecture  if  there 
was  not  work  for  him  to  do  at  home.  Perhaps  the  end  of  his  voyage  en 
prince  was  acceptable.  He  returned  and  became  again  a  factor  of  moment 
in  his  great  city.  He  found  questions  of  ocean  steamships  before  him, 
and  this  was  a  field  large  enough  to  employ  his  energies.  The  British 
Government  needed,  or  thought  they  did,  the  Cunard  ships  for  war  service. 
Mr.  Vanderbilt  had  earnest  negotiations  with  the  Collins  Line  and  the 
United  States  about  taking  their  mail  carriage.  It  ended  in  the  then 
President  (Pierce)  vetoing  subsidies,  and  Mr.  Vanderbilt  found  abun- 
dant occupation  in  the  continuation  of  his  California  business — only,  as 
he  could  not  be  on  both  oceans  in  personal  superintendence,  he  felt  the 
pressure  of  the  Pacific  coast  arrangements  as  they  were  managed  ;  but 
he  remained  in  the  traffic  until  one  of  those  great  transactions  in  millions 
of  purchase  money,  which  are  like  a  castle  in  the  air  to  mankind  in 
general,  but  which  some  men  are  capable  of  managing,  relieved  him  from 
so  much  of  steamship  property. 

For  his  Havre  Line — for  this  enterprising  citizen  kept  the  sea  lively 
— he  had  built  the  Vanderbilt,  and  a  stately  vessel  it  was;  5,000  tons 
register,  and  it  cost  $500,000  in  gold.  It  made  fast  voyages,  and 
was  the  finest  vessel  he  had  launched.  Our  country  came,  by  events 
which  history  is  placing  in  order  so  that  its  great  record  may  be  in  phil- 
osophic truth,  to  all  the  fury  of  civil  war,  the  full  terror  of  which  the 
graves  and  the  calamities  of  the  long  years  have  enabled  us  to  understand. 
The  South  had  accomplished  a  fraction  of  a  naval  force,  but,  for  the  time, 
it  seemed  a  formidable  one.  Indeed,  one  of  its  vessels  did  revolutionize 
naval  warfare.  Mr.  Vanderbilt  told  the  Government  he  could  hunt  down 
the  Merrimac  as  a  hound  runs  down  the  wolf.  He  placed  his  ship  with 
the  Government.  Although  he  was  then  in  the  years  of  old  age,  he  offered 
to  take  charge  of  the  chase,  and  he  did  so.  The  Merrimac  did  not 
come  out.  The  steamship  Vanderbilt  afterward  made  a  long  cruise 
after  the  Alabama.     The  service  so  strained  the  vessel  that  a'^  last  the 

*  For  a  pleasant  account  of  Mr.  Cornelius  Vanderbilt's  voyage  en  seigneur,  see  "The  Cruise  of  the 
Steam  Yacht  North  Star:  A  Narrative  of  the  Excursion  of  Mr.  Vanderbilt's  Party  to  England,  Russia. 
Denmark,  France,  Spain,  Italy.  Malta,  Turkey,  Madeira,  etc.,  by  the  Rev.  John  Dunion  Choules,  D.D." 
I  vol.  i2mo.     Uoston,  1854. — [Editors.] 


,886.]  Cornelius  and  IVilliam  H.  VanderUlt.  67 

e„gi„es  we.  taken  ou.a„.l  the  .M.  soH  -  *e™ercham  service^     It 

caret"AHs  extraordinary  nran  ^.e^ed  --    a^roa     e.-n>;;-.  ^^  "^ 

came,  and  saw,  and  conquered.       ^j^j'^^"'' .j^^y   ^„i  „ith  the  clear 
with  the  strong  hand  tlrat  could  acquire  ^"^^^  could  hold   a„a  ^^^^  ^^^^ 

eye  that  could  see  the  light  beyond  *«  "n">e*ate  snaaov  . 
Harlem,  and  the  man  who  had  won  ^^^^  success  a,  ,,e  , me    and  t 
proved,  by  his  trenchant  and^jo-g    -anagemenj,  drat^      ^^^^^^^_        _ 
govern  the  affairs  of  the  parallel  dcli^.  .  ,  ,      ^       ^j        t^gr.     Exit 

Lps  doubted  but  one  f-^  ^f  f  ^^  ^^^^^  'Jhel^idson  River  Road  came 
"  the  Commodore"— enter  Y^^f'^^'^^^f-.t^'  u^^a  ^f  it  The  Central 
into  his  grasp,  and  he  took  the  same  ;^^°"g^^^^°^^^  clnard,  Hutton,  and 
was  in  his  way  and  thwarted  him    J"  J^^/^'  Astor   ^u         >  ^^^^^^^ 

'^^An'd'of  all  the  routes  which  ^res.^ ^^^l^^.^^^^: 
that  land  of  ever-increasmg  We  and  wealth  the  \\  est  J^'^^eless  valley  of 
facile  showed  itself  to  the  railway  ^^^^^^  ^f  J^f^^^^^,  Z  surveyor,  and  had 
the  Hudson  and  the   Mohawk?  /^^^-^^  ^^f,!''^^^^^^^^ 
laid  out  the  rout.     T^-.^igl^nds  stoc,d  a    de  tojet  the^-^^^^^^^^^  ^^ 

structed  flow,  and  at  Little  J^ai  s   tne  "  ^^      -^  ^^  distance  was 

to  make  easy  passage,  and  so  it  ^f  ^^  ^^^  ™;^^  wis  practical  good  sense 
somewhat  greater,  the  wisdon.  of  le  oW  l>r°v^rb  was  P       ^^^^ .^^^^  ^^,^^^ 

-"The  longest  way  around  was  ^^^^  "^f^^^^^Jf  ^^^^  school  of  experience 

one  head,      ihe     (^onsonuauun                                     renorts  of   engineers, 
back  on  that  mythical   ^-^d,   constructed    n  the   repo 

-South-sides."  and  shorter  and  more  direc   which  were  ^^  ^^^^^,,,, 

tangible  recognition  and  a  bonded  reatym  who  ^  Prospe  y    .^  ^^^.^  ^^^ 

lated  financial  benefit  fortunate  stockholder    ^^oiced  ^j^^^^^^^.^.es 

own  immediate  time,  -."^t!^^'"  J^^yS^^^^'^^'^d    hl^^^^^^^  was  real 

which  could  not  be  avoided,  adopted,  the  ^«^^  tnat  Wc         4  ^^^^^_ 

and  actual,  was  in  a^^ie  -t    of  a  gf e^at  prop^^t^^^^^^^^^^^  an  ^^^^^^^^ , 

d::^^^f  ttclS  ^ane/ at  Albany  a^S^ene<^^^to^.s^gr^ 
wealth  of  order  and  equipment  ^o-day,  is  a     b  a      «  /^id^^t.     We 

tion  in  tt  Library  .  f  Congress."-[ED.TORS.] 


68  Cornelius  and   William  H.   Vanderbilt.  [April, 

him  in  the  board  of  directors,  when  we  say  he  became  master.  Whatever 
its  poUcy,  whether  as  connected  with  individuals,  or  localities,  or  rival  cor- 
porations, it  was  his  judgment  that  controlled.  Whatever  may  be  the 
strength  of  personality  with  any  man,  in  this  land  of  active  men,  it  cannot 
always  find  an  easy  progress.  He  found  steeper  grades  to  overcome,  with 
the  policy  he  pursued,  than  any  locomotive  encountered  on  its  way  over 
his  favorite  road.  But  in  the  main  he  succeeded  ;  the  stockholders  saw 
that  their  property  was  protected  and  augmented.  He  created  new  stock 
for  them,  presenting  as  his  reason  for  the  act  that  additional  values  were 
by  it  represented.  Anticipating  the  augmented  outpouring  of  the  results 
of  the  increased  industry  of  the  West,  he  achieved  the  duplication  of  his 
road.  It  presented  by  these  four  tracks  a  laborer  strong  enough  and 
ready,  and  with  all  the  appliances  to  cover  man  and  material,  come  in 
what  force  it  might.  That  it  was  a  fulness  of  facility  is  a  truth  somewhat 
painfully  recognized  in  the  experience  of  1885,  The  Central  was  a 
synonyme  of  prosperity,  and  the  quotation  of  its  value  was  a  source  of 
daily  satisfaction  to  the  owners  of  the  property,  and  every  man  in  the  reach 
of  its  movement  was  a  sharer  in  its  benefits. 

His  was  not  the  character  that  takes  the  steep  side  of  the  "  Hill  Diffi- 
culty." He  interpreted  the  opposition  to  a  project  of  his  will — by  his 
reading  of  the  law  of  that  will — and  perhaps  had  the  excitement  as  a  stim- 
ulus, which  does  make  a  portion  of  the  strength  by  which  conquest  comes. 
He  chose  the  diameter  line  of  action.  It  was  but  the  third  of  the  distance. 
If  he  understood  that  it  had  three  times  the  hindrances  to  success,  the 
determination  was  in  him.  Of  course,  this  rule  in  action  is  not  always 
met  peaceably  or  graciously,  and  is  not  always  wisest,  but  in  the  great  pur- 
poses of  his  life  he  moved  onward.  We  can  illustrate  our  meaning  by 
quoting  the  expression  which  is  attributed  to  Earl  Grey,  at  the  time  of  the 
hesitation  of  the  House  of  Lords  to  pass  the  Reform  Bill:  "Through  this 
House,  or  over  this  House,  this  measure  will  pass." 

Any  man  who  knew  the  position  which  is  occupied  by  the  city  of  New 
York  to  the  State  and  to  the  nation,  and  to  all  civilized  activities  of  men, 
could  not  but  see  that  in  the  extent  and  strength  of  its  railways  was  its 
greatness.  Its  commerce  had  come  to  full  power.  The  nation  was  strong 
enough  to  protect  its  flag,  and  everywhere  that  flag  went.  What  it  needed 
was  a  burden  to  float  over,  and  it  came  to  the  wharves  of  New  York  for 
that.  The  canal  in  its  day  was  as  the  stage-coach  had  been  in  its  time. 
The  new  machinery  of  movement  was  to  achieve  results  out  of  the  possi- 
bilities of  the  old ;  it  was  to  do  on  the  earth  the  work  over  time  and  dis- 
tance which  had  been  done  on  the  sea  over  wind  and  tide. 

So  soon  as  the  mind  of  Fulton  and  Stephenson  had  formulated  into 
practical  result  the  progressive  power  of  the  steam-engine  and  the  locomo- 
tive, and  out  of  the  English  collieries  tram-road  the  railway  was  evolved, 
it  was  of  the  near  results  of  our  American  character  that  this  country 
would  have  a  steamboat  wherever  there  was  a  depth  for  the  keels,  and  the 
rails  wherever  by  the  countless  fibres  of  human  movement  this  people 
themselves  went,  or  sought  to  send,  the  results  of  their  labor  or  commerce. 

Mr.  Cornelius  Vanderbilt  had  the  sense  to  see  that  the  land  had 
greater  work  •  for  his  strong  direction  than  the  sea ;  that  the  life  of  man, 
with  all  that  it  creates,  was  everywhere  on  the  one,  and  only  at  long  inter- 
vals and  between  great  spaces  in  the  broad  operations  of  the  other.  He 
had  been  very  SLiccessful,  very  superior,  and  had  realized  enormous  results 


1 886.]  Cornelius  and  Williatn  H.   Vanderbilt.  69 

in  one  direction.  In  minor  experience  its  ways  had  been  with  him  from 
young  years.  There  was  all  the  power  of  habit,  of  the  intimate  and  Tamil- 
iar  knowledge  of  the  uses  of  one  pursuit.  It  is  an  experiment  to  break 
oflf  the  familiar  occupation.  To  tread  the  old  steps  with  the  movement  of 
mastery,  the  years  had  well  taught  him.  He  was,  such  was  the  familiar 
word  which  had  grown  to  be  his  appellation,  "  the  Commodore."  Could  he 
be  the  president,  the  superintendent,  the  sea,  and  the  bay,  and  the  river, 
presented  no  troublesome  questions  of  right  of  way.  On  the  land  they 
were  but  the  advance-guard  of  ten  thousand  perplexities,  presented  through 
the  torture,  as  its  various  modes  and  methods  are  known  to  the  sleepless 
vigilance  of  the  legal  profession.  It  is  no  holiday  play  to  manage  a  great 
railway.  It  has  a  formidable  list  of  fixed  charges ;  they  come,  if  passen- 
gers and  traffic  do  not,  and  in  this  day  it  is  guidance  in  the  face  of  severe 
opposing  or  rivalling  forces.  All  ways  lead  to  Rome.  All  roads  seek  New 
York,  History  is  a  copyist,  and  the  man  who  can  bring  his  trust  safely 
through  the  ordeal  of  labor  and  competition,  to  the  satisfaction  of  his 
stockholders,  has  proved  his  position  among  his  fellow-men.  No  man  can 
look  closely  at  this,  and  write  concerning  it,  but  that  he  queries  whether 
with  the  luxury  of  power  does  not  come  the  shadow  of  care.  Perhaps  Mr. 
Cornelius  Vanderbilt  was  less  affected  by  such  cares  than  most  men.  To 
gain  a  result  was  the  dismissal  or  the  lightening  of  the  anxieties  that  ac- 
companied it. 

He  accomplished,  if  any  such  ambition  ever  crossed  his  practical  mind, 
a  foremost  place  among  men.  Perhaps  in  his  character  there  was  the 
distinction  between  satisfaction  at  success  and  desire  for  prominence. 
The  realities  less  than  the  philosophies  of  life  were  with  him.  When  we 
are  in  a  restless,  active,  and  aggressive  crowd,  and  are  occupied  of  neces- 
sity in  self-protection,  we  are  not  chiefly  em])loyed  in  discovering  the 
excellence  of  our  fellow-creatures.  If  he  desired  a  name  among  the  chief 
people  of  his  time,  he  won  it.  In  this  great  city  of  the  New  World,  men 
read  the  pathway  to  success  as  they  learned  it  from  his  movement,  and  he 
was,  in  all  its  million  of  such  self-asserting  men  as  Americans  are,  a  leader. 
After  this,  his  life-work  was  progressive,  as  one  after  the  other  of  more  dis- 
tant railways,  but  which  were  in  business  alliance,  were  added  to  the 
"  Vanderbilts."  We  do  not  know  that  these  increased  his  cares.  He  had 
learned  his  art  of  land  movement,  and  he  became,  may  we  not  say,  the 
recognized  leader.  Certainly  this  man  proved  his  administrative  power 
by  land  and  sea.  The  valleys  were  with  him.  Other  great  roads  had,  in- 
deed, the  courage  to  take  their  path  across  the  mountains,  but  the  trial  of 
strength  over  the  grades  told  on  the  resources.  He  had  the  entrance  way 
within  the  city.  The  upper  river,  after  a  struggle  of  the  most  severe  nat- 
ure, was  successfully  bridged,  and  from  amidst  the  warehouses  and  dwell- 
ings of  the  city,  the  streets,  not  the  ferries,  led  to  the  Grand  Central 
Depot,  He  had  builded  well,  and  the  reward  of  his  sagacity  poured  in 
upon  him.  He  was  wealthy  beyond  his  dreams — beyond  his  resolve,  for 
his  purposes  did  not  frame  themselves  in  dreams.  He  had  proved  that  he 
was  of  sound  judgment,  and  that  quality  places  men  in  front.  Years  were 
closing  around  him,  yet  "by  reason  of  strength"  he  was  reaching  the  four- 
score,* 

*  "In  the  spring  of  1872,"  says  Eishop  McTyeire,  in  a  memorial  sermon,  "when  our  publishing  house 
was  being  rebuilt,  I  was  notified  to  draw  on  him  for  $i,ooo,  and  to  'say  nothing  about  it.'  That  donation 
was  acknowledged  in  the  paper  as  from  '  A  Friend  in  New  York.'  This  is,  in  part,  what  I  know  about  his 
giving,  and  the  manner  of  it.     I  never  had   to  do  with  a  more  modest  giver  than  he  was,  except  in  the 


70  Cornelius  and  William  H.   Vanderbilt.  [April, 

Yielding  to  an  influence  to  which  it  was  kindly  in  him  to  listen,  he  gave 
a  vast  sum  of  money  to  the  creation  in  the  State  of  Tennessee  of  a  uni- 
versity, with  which  his  name  has  become  identified.  It  was  a  gift  so  great 
as  to  bring  in  brief  time  its  results,  and  his  munificence  had  that  duplica- 
tion of  power  of  which  the  Latin  proverb  speaks  as  it  tells  of  the  strength 
of  him  who  gives  quickly.  The  history  of  powerful  men  is  often  a  picture 
of  strong  contrasts  of  color.  The  unnoticed  boatman,  on  the  short  ferry 
passage  between  Staten  Island  and  the  city,  lives  to  win  the  ability  to 
assist  the  mind  of  a  State  struggling  out  of  the  sufferings  of  a  civil  war 
to  make  for  itself  the  peace,  and  prosperity,  and  order  that  come  so  con- 
genially to  those  who  love  letters.  Men  of  great  good  sense,  when  they 
rise  to  rule,  do  not  forget  the  contrasts.  Even  Napoleon,  when,  as  their 
peer,  he  sat  among  the  kings,  rather  surprised  them  by  saying,  "  When  I 
was  a  lieutenant  of  artillery."  This  sketch  of  the  career  of  the  elder 
Vanderbilt  would  but  imperfectly  meet  its  purposes,  if  it  did  not  convey 
the  record  of  a  private  citizen  who,  by  his  sound  judgment  and  the  courage 
to  act  upon  it,  and  the  ability  to  hold  whatever  vantage-ground  he  had 
gained,  could  attain  in  the  third,  if  not  second,  city  in  the  civilized  world 
the  power  to  make  a  rich  gift  to  the  Government  itself,  to  strengthen 
learning,  to  master  every  factor  in  a  vast  business,  and  to  create  and  main- 
tain a  personal  opulence  which  seemed  the  truth  of  a  vision.  As  about 
all  problems  of  railway  government  had  been  encountered,  that  is,  suf- 
ficiently so  to  test  and  try  the  administration,  and  the  great  trusts  and 
properties  were  moving  on  in  prosperous  order,  Mr.  Vanderbilt  had  the 
reward  of  his  courage.  His  latter  day  was  in  the  enjoyment  of  the  labor 
of  younger  time.  The  wife  who  had  shared  labor  and  reward  died,  after 
many  long  years  of  wedded  life.  It  is  only  in  the  rare  exception  in  the 
vast  universality  of  the  rule  that  fifty  years  passes  and  finds  the  alliance 
unbroken.  More  than  that  number  wove  the  many-colored  tissue  of  life 
in  this  instance.  She  died  in  1868.  He  was  again  married,  in  the  fall  of 
1869,  to  Frances  Crawford,  who  survived  him,  dying  only  a  short  time  since. 

We  allude  again  to  Mr.  Vand-^rbilt's  great  gift  to  the  university  which 
now  bears  his  name.  It  was  well  done,  indeed,  and  in  a  power  few  could 
imitate,  even  if  they  could  compass  the  gift  in  intention.  His  son  after- 
ward affluently  crowned  the  gift.  So  stands  the  blended  munificence.  It 
shall  exalt  the  action  of  minds  that,  recognizing  the  aid  it  has  bestowed, 
shall  associate  the  name  of  Vanderbilt  with  the  developed  strength  of  their 
nobler  faculty.  Thus,  having  done,  names  are  not  "writ  in  water,"  as  the 
desponding  English  poet  mourned  concerning  his  own  ;  they  are  made 
permanent.  See  how  the  small  sum  John  Harvard  gave  is  in  the  common 
fame  erf  learning  to-day.  It  lives  far  beyond  the  life  that  sent  it  on  its 
mission.* 

amount.  .  .  .  He  abhorred  liars  and  lying.  I  have  heard  him  remark  with  warmth  on  the  value  of 
truthfulness  in  men  working  under  you,  or  working  with  you  ;  it  was,  in  his  estimation,  the  one  quality  that 
never  stood  alone.  '  If,'  said  he,  '  you  find  a  man  that  will  tell  the  truth  and  stick  to  it,  unless  he's  mighty 
heavy,  you  had  better  take  him  along.'  .  .  .  Mr.  Vanderbilt  never  retired  from  business,  though  toward 
the  close  of  life  he  drew  his  principal  cares  and  studies  in  another  direction.  He  was  not  on  'Change  ;  in 
his  office  he  might  be  seen,  just  in  the  rear  of  his  dwelling  and  fronting  on  another  street.  Breakfast  over, 
and  the  morning  paper  glanced  at,  he  passed  through  the  back  door  into  the  courtyard  of  his  stables,  where 
his  famous  horses  were  looked  at,  and  on  to  his  office,  and  was  back  in  time  for  a  two  o'clock  dinner.  Then 
came  out-door  exercise  behind  a  brisk  team.  Business  and  exercise  over,  he  had  the  evenings  for  his 
friends." — [Editors.] 

*The  Commodore  had  no  affection  for  ministers,  and  rarely  admitted  one  to  his  presence.  But  when  he 
became  acquainted  with  Dr.  Charles  F.  Deems,  he  rather  liked  him  on  account  of  his  plain-spoken,  prompt, 
business  manner,  and  invited  him  to  his  house.  One  evening  after  dinner  the  conversation  fell  upon  clerical 
beggars,  and  the  two  gentlemen  agreed  perfectly  on  that  point.  "I've  never  asked  you  for  a  penny,"  said 
the  Doctor.     "That  is  true,"  remarked  the  admiring  millionnaire.     "  And  I  never  shall,"  added  the  min- 


^^-^o^  ^y^.^^^-^ 


i886.]  Cornelius  and  William  H.  Vanderhilt.  yi 

By  reason  of  strength  this  man  came  to  fourscore,  and  beyond  it — 
1 794-187 7.  This  was  an  era  in  which  the  vitally  awakened  energies  of 
the  age  developed  that  great  progress,  at  whose  results,  amidst,  in,  and 
around  us,  we  enjoy,  and  he  could  speak  as  a  witness  and  an  actor.  He 
added  a  conspicuous  name  to  the  list  of  the  self-made  men.  Even  /lis  ener- 
gies at  last  yielded,  and  the  surrender  was  after  long  months  of  illness. 
He  died  January  4,  1877.  The  record  of  his  life  was  the  illustration  of  his 
character.* 

His  death  was  an  event  at  which  the  busy  world  around  thought  and 
commented  on,  as  to  its  result  to  the  living.  Those  associated  with  him 
paid  due  commemorative  honor.  His  funeral  was  attended  by  leading 
citizens,  such  as  Thurlow  Weed,  William  M.  Evarts,  Peter  Cooper,  Charles 
O' Conor,  Governor  Morgan — men  of  wisdom  and  wealth,  who  came  to  the 
silence  of  him  whose  activity  they  knew  in  its  power.  Simply  and  quietly 
the  last  journey  was  taken,  and  in  the  Moravian  Cemetery  at  the  Nieuw 
Dorp — the  new  village — the  interment  was  made.  Thus  Staten  Island, 
which  in  all  its  beauty — and  it  is  of  the  fairest  lands  the  New  World  shows 
us — that  Jan  Aertsen  Vanderbilt  sailed  past  in  1650,  to  labor  and  fight 
for  a  home  amidst  forest  and  savage,  receives  the  man  who,  two  hundred 
and  twenty-seven  years  afterward,  had  made  his  name  of  national  utter- 
ance. The  words  of  prayer  were  said  in  the  shadow  of  the  Moravian 
Church,  the  Christian  brotherhood  of  the  Church  of  Zeyst,  near  de  Bildt, 
and  the  man  of  power  and  wealth  ceased  to  be  of  earth. 

William  Henry  Vanderbilt  was  born  on  May  8,  182 1,  at  the  city 
of  New  Brunswick,  in  New  Jersey — the  eldest  son.  That  was  a  quiet 
period  in  the  world's  history.  Europe  was  resting  from  the  Napoleon 
wars,  and  had  not  commenced  its  movement  toward  popular  govern- 
ment ;  and  our  own  land  was  in  Monroe's  time — "  the  era  of  good  feeling.'' 
The  forces  that  are  pushing  in  our  day  were  about  to  enter  on  their  work 
of  transformation  of  man's  physical  condition.  They  would  be  ready  in 
their  hour,  and  the  men  to  wield  them  are  coming  to  their  control  by 
growth  of  years.  Railway  and  telegraph  were,  perhaps,  building  in  some 
"visionary"  mans  thought.  Mr.  Vanderbilt's  father,  while  destined  in  the 
future  to  aid  the  education  of  a  commonwealth  by  an  act  of  munificence, 
which,  in  182 1,  would  have  startled  the  nation,  did  not  then  judge  of  the 
value  of  a  broadly  trained  intellect,  as  he  afterward,  by  his  gift,  enabled 
others  to  do.  The  eldest  son  was,  however,  given  the  advantages — and,  in 
comparison,  they  were  valuable  and  powerful — of  the  tuition  extended  by 
the  Columbia  College  Grammar  School  of  New  York  ;  and  old  Columbia 
is  so  abundant  in  its  science,  we  must  believe  that  it  had  no  department  of 
its  resources  but  that  from  it  men  might  train  themselves  mentally.  He 
studied  faithfully,  and  took  his  share  in  the  average  success  of  the  school, 
which  he  left  at  the  age  of  eighteen.  Now,  to  this  ordinary  education — 
this  early  close  of  it — this  leaving  the  preparation  for  life  when  so  many 
are  only  then  accomplishing  the  preface,  however  much  we  may  regret 

ister.  The  Commodore  looked  svirprised  and  somewhat  resentful.  "  If  you  have  lived  to  your  age,"  went 
on  the  doctor,  who  really  desired  a  church  very  much,  "  without  liaving  the  sense  to  see  what  I  want,  and 
the  grace  to  give  it  to  me,  I  shall  never  tell  you;  you  will  die  without  the  sight."  He  went  away,  and 
within  a  fortnight  the  Commodore  sent  him  a  check  for  y?/0'  thou^attd  dollars,  with  which  to  purchase  the 
structure  in  Mercer  Street,  New  York,  which  became  the  Church  of  the  Strangers.  —  [EniTORS.] 

*  The  Commodore  was  perhaps  the  handsomest  man  of  fourscore  years  that  could  be  seen  in  the  city,  or 
entire  country.  Tall— he  was  more  than  six  feet — graceful,  and  erect,  with  a  bright  eye  and  beautiful  com- 
plexion. Seen  in  advanced  age  he  had  the  springy,  buoyant  step  that  characterizes  youth,  and  he  retained 
his  strong  intellect,  clear  and  unclouded,  to  the  last  hour  of  his  long  life. — [Editors.] 


72  Cornelius  and  William  H.  Vandetbilt.  [April, 

that  it  was  not  in  greater  measure — and  such  was  Mr.  Vanderbilt's  own 
judgment — we  must  quote,  and  ask  whether  it  does  not  apply  to  the  career 
of  this  gentleman,  the  words  which  John  Quincy  Adams  used  in  his  eulogy 
upon  Lafayette  :  "  He  always  had  the  talent  to  do  that  which  he  was 
called  to  do  ;  "  and  many  very  erudite  scholars  may  not  quite  have  learned 
that. 

There  is  now,  in  our  advanced  day,  enough  said  about  education  by  wise 
men  to  create  a  library  ;  yet,  through  it  all,  there  ought  to  be  seen  the 
truth  of  7iatus  est.  Much  of  that  which  constitutes  the  "  divinity  that 
shapes  our  ends,  rough  hew  them  as  we  will,"  is  of  the  mysterious  inheri- 
tance that  is  not  always  bequeathed  to  us  by  our  immediate  parentage. 
Far  ofif  in  the  line  of  ancestry,  in  that  man  or  that  woman  who  had  unusual 
courage,  or  energy,  or  genius,  or  skill,  may  be  found  the  source  of  the 
qualities  that  in  the  later  generation  establishes  its  right  to  rule.  In  this 
case,  his  father  possessed  such  strong  characteristics,  which  his  son  could 
observe,  and  with  the  observation  sagaciously  see  where  they  failed  or  suc- 
ceeded to  do  life's  work  in  the  best  way,  that,  while  the  Grammar  School 
of  Columbia  closed  its  doors  on  him  at  eighteen,  there  was  an  education 
of  experience  to  whose  lessons  he  was  constantly  admitted.  We  think  it 
is  Mr.  Everett  who  says,  in  effect  :  "  You  talk  about  self-educated  men. 
They  procure  the  keys  at  school,  and  thenceforward  the  most  accom- 
plished professors  of  the  earth's  ages  give  them  lessons." 

He  was  soon  placed  in  the  banking-house,  in  Wall  Street,  New  York, 
of  Drew,  Robinson  &  Co.  Probably  "the  street"  failed  to  recognize  at 
the  desk,  or  in  the  crowds  of  habitues,  the  man  whose  judgment  and  deci- 
sion was,  in  the  later  years,  to  flush  or  pale  the  cheek  of  the  foremost  of 
their  managers — to  be  the  cause  of  the  deliberation  of  their  most  solid  coun- 
sellors in  direction — at  the  sensational  tidings  of  whose  rumored  decease 
men  gathered  to  ask  if  it  were  true  ;  and  when  the  end,  in  truth,  did  come,  to 
consult  as  to  whether  ebb  or  flood  was  to  be  the  feature  of  the  tide  of  values. 
He  worked  well.  He  learned  the  problems  of  which  Wall  Street  is  the 
philosopher — not  always  that  of  Midas,  at  whose  touch  all  turned  to  gold. 
He  was  in  a  school  where  there  is  but  little  care  for  theories.  The  balance- 
sheet  is  the  mainsail. 

In  that  incident  of  life,  which  with  most  men  makes  or  mars  more  haj)- 
piness  than  all  wealth  creates,  or  all  poverty  destroys — his  marriage— he 
made  a  most  admirable  choice.  Those  who  remember  Miss  Louise  Kis- 
sam,  the  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Samuel  Kissam,  the  clergyman  of  the  Re- 
formed Dutch  Church  in  the  environs  of  the  city  of  Albany,  before  her 
marriage  with  Mr.  W.  H.  Vanderbilt,  understand  distinctly  what  assurance 
of  happiness  her  loveliness  gave.  With  or  without  opulence,  it  was  of  the 
very  riches  of  life.  It  was,  of  itself,  the  presage  of  success,  and  if,  instead 
of  writing  this  sketch  of  the  career  of  a  gentleman  who  became,  as  Dr. 
Johnson  felicitously  phrased  it,  "  rich  beyond  the  wildest  dreams  of  ava- 
rice," we  were  portraying  penury,  we  should  say  with  strongest  utterance, 
success.  It  is  superb  when  it  comes  with  wealth — but  it  would  be  *'  a  joy 
forever"  in  an}'^  man's  life.  Mr.  Vanderbilt  had  rendered  his  clerkship  so 
acceptable  to  the  firm,  that  they  proposed  to  make  him  a  member  of  it,  but 
considerations  of  health  were  paramount,  and  he  turned  his  back  on  Wall 
Street  and  removed  to  Staten  Island,  and  to  whatever  of  enjoyment  or 
profit  a  small  farm  might  bring  to  him.  The  chronicles  of  a  home  life  in  the 
"  rural  district"  need  not  interest  the  public.     He  had  accepted  their  cares, 


1 886.]  Cornelius  and  William  H.   Vanderbilt.  y^ 

and  the  stronger  existence  which  was  preparing  for  him — for  that  he  could 
wait,  if  indeed  any  definite  thought  about  it  ever  had  come  to  him.  Mean- 
while his  father  was  busy  in  his  energetic  grasp  of  life,  and,  it  may  be,  in 
regret  that  his  eldest  son  seemed  so  little  likely  to  be  his  stronghold  of  re- 
liance, should  any  weakness  of  mortal  change  and  chance  occur. 

The  two  characters  were  yet  to  understand  each  other,  and  time  was 
preparing  for  that.  We  know  how  fully  it  became  accomplished.  His 
young  son,  marrying  so  early  in  life,  going  out  of  the  vortex  of  business  to 
a  small  Staten  Island  farm,  did  not  seem'  likely  to  be  the  ultimate  partner 
of  the  mastery  the  elder  Vanderbilt- achieved.  It  is  said,  and  we  admit 
that  "  it  is  said  "  is  an  authority  in  biography  which  we  take  reluctantly, 
that  a  distinct  and  self-reliant  answer  given  by  the  younger  man  to  his 
father,  concerning  a  mortgage  on  the  farm,  at  which  transaction  the  elder  , 
tossed  contempt,  and  the  son  defended  as  a  "  perfectly  business-like  trans- 
action," was  the  turning-point  at  which  greater  confidence  and  intimacy 
came  to  exist.  We  have  heard  that  Mr,  Thurlow  Weed,  who  in  his  day 
was  a  dynasty  in  himself,  the  counsellor  of  statesmen,  a  keen  judge  of  men, 
was  early  impressed  with  a  belief  in  the  capacity  possessed  by  Mr.  W.  H. 
Vanderbilt,  and  made  his  opinion  known  to  his  father.  It  must  have  been 
one  of  the  gratifications  of  Mr,  Weed's  life  to  have  seen  the  extraordinary 
result  of  his  prophecy  of  good  in  this  instance.  He  now,  by  the  force  of 
circumstances,  assumed  the  initiation  of  that  management  in  which  he  was 
to  be  so  distinguished.  At  his  very  doors  he  found  a  railway  to  try  his 
skill.  Of  the  embarrassed  Staten  Island  road  he  was  appointed  receiver, 
and  "  it  was  in  him  "  to  make  his  management  a  success — Ce  n'esl  que  le 
premier  pas  qui  coiite.  In  the  days  when  he  could  call  the  roll  of  his  presi- 
dencies or  masteries  in  other  form,  over  long  ranges  of  railways,  with  all 
their  millions  of  earnings  and  accompanying  cares,  he  may  have  tliought  of 
his  little  Staten  Island  troubles  in  a  roadway  whose  length  the  locomotive 
only  needed  a  few  breaths  to  compass. 

But  this  successful  beginnning  seemed  to  find  a  hinderance.  He  was 
called  to  foreign  travel  and  other  kindly  attendance  over  his  invalid  brother 
George.  The  tender  care  could  not  avert  the  end.  The  brother  died. 
Mr.  Vanderbilt  returned  to  New  York,  and  the  time  had  come.  "  Cornelius 
and  William  H."  understood  each  other.  It  was  in  the  midst  of  the  civil 
war,  in  1864,  when  William  H.  Vanderbilt  was  made  vice-president  of 
the  Hudson  River  and  Harlem  Railroad  Companies.  Now  from  this  time 
forward  until  his  death  in  1885,  at  first  and  for  many  years,  with  the  subor- 
dinate responsibility  of  submission  to  the  policy,  in  whatever  form  it  might 
be  presented,  of  his  father,  sometimes  as  in  answer  to  the  request  of  opinion 
as  to  what  form  the  exigency  presented  itself  to  him,  then  of  suggestive 
original  as  to  the  best  course — but  in  one  or  the  other  of  the  ways  and 
means  in  which  the  great  enterprises  should  be  conducted,  he  was  a  man- 
ager-in-chief of  the  business  of  railways,  which  is  but  another  method  of 
expression  concerning  one  of  the  greatest  and  most  useful  of  the  activities 
of  the  highest  civilization  ;  and  confessedly  he  did  his  work  well.  It  is  said, 
and  it  seems  to  us  a  most  impressive  incident  in  history,  that  an  intelligent 
Hindoo  once  said  to  an  Englishman :  ''  I  will  tell  you  why  your  few  thou- 
sands rule  the  millions  of  our  people — you  take  up  your  father's  experi- 
ences where  he  left  them  off.  The  East  Indian  goes  the  round  of  his 
father's  life  over  again.''  The  management  of  material  and  of  men  is  of 
rules  re-written  every  new  day  from  the  experience  of  the  previous  day. 


74  Corfielius  and  IVilliam  H.  Vanderbilt.  [April, 

January  4,  1877,  Mr.  Cornelius  Vanderbilt  died.  To  the  colossal  for- 
tune he  had  accumulated,  we  have  alluded.  Its  disposition  was,  of  course, 
to  the  public  a  matter  of  curious  interest,  and  it  was  in  the  very  nature  of 
the  act  a  transaction  of  the  utmost  importance.  The  testator  indicated  the 
confidence  he  had  in  his  eldest  son  in  the  magnitude  of  the  amount  be- 
queathed to  him.  The  litigation  over  the  will  had  its  glare,  its  fire — and, 
fortunately,  its  ashes — William  H.  Vanderbilt  was  now  the  wealthiest  man 
on  the  American  continent.  Wealthy  enough,  indeed,  and  it  is  not  neces- 
sary to  search  through  the  array  of  European  or  Asiatic  private  opulence 
to  know  if  this  man  exceeded  all  others.  He  had  a  great  trust  in  the  form 
of  his  riches  over  the  property  of  others.  The  modern  gauntlet  through 
which  the  owner  of  property  must  run  is  of  a  different  order  of  feroc- 
ity from  that  of  our  former  landholders,  the  Iroquois.  There  is  more 
cunning,  and  learning,  and  calculation  required,  than  in  the  hand  that 
throws  the  tomahawk.  The  herbs  of  the  wood  do  not  so  easily  heal  the 
damages. 

It  is  not  necessary  in  this  article  to  follow  out  the  details  of  his  man- 
agement of  his  properties  and  trusts.  They  are  familiar,  for  some  word 
concerning  them  was  in  the  pressure  of  the  types  of  a  heavy  press  by 
morning  light  and  night  shadow.  If  it  be  true  that  a  kingly  life  must  endure 
"  the  fierce  light  that  beats  upon  a  throne,"  it  is  in  a  degree  true  of  all  men 
who  hold  high  trust.  The  press  exercised  over  him  its  watchfulness  and 
its  imagination.  It  criticised,  sentenced,  invented,  interviewed,  and  seemed 
to  regard  his  positive  acts  and  all  his  presumed  ones  as  public  property. 
Quite  likely  it  often  annoyed  him ;  but  he  may  have  grown  callous  to  it. 
When  public  men  find  at  every  turn  of  their  life  a  suspicion  and  an  accusa- 
tion, they  learn  to  disregard  the  noise  of  attack.  A  great  railway  em- 
ploys an  army  of  working  force.  It  is  to  be  governed  by  the  intelligence 
that  recognizes  good  service,  and  can  insist  upon  it,  and  must  have  a  firm- 
ness that  never  pulls  the  rein  in  the  wrong  part  of  the  journey,  that  can  see 
the  rights  of  others  and  its  own  also.  These  qualities  make  the  leader  in 
such  places  of  rule.  Mr.  Vanderbilt  knew  what  it  was  to  meet  modern 
exigencies  in  those  trials  of  armed  good  sense  which  are  characteristic  of 
these  days. 

He  worked  the  long,  long  years.  He  had  educated  others  to  his  work. 
He  was  entitled  to  the  quiet,  and  he  arranged  to  enjoy  it,  but  at  home  or 
abroad,  in  ofiice  or  aside  from  it,  wherever  he,  the  living  man,  was,  he  was 
the  master-spirit.  He  built  for  himself  a  superb  residence.  It  was  in  one 
of  the  best-situated  portions  of  the  Fifth  Avenue,  where  New  York  seems  to 
place  its  fairest  features.  He  had  the  wise  days  of  architecture  with  him. 
The  art  in  whose  successes  or  failures  the  home-hours  are  passed  had 
taken  to  its  uses  the  widest  liberties  of  form  and  fashioning.  The  old  or  the 
new  archway,  gallery,  saloon,  hall,  light,  and  air — all  colors,  all  ingenuity 
the  architect  might  decree,  could  be  adopted ;  and  if  better  material  could 
be  brought  from  the  greater  distance,  the  call  would  find  response.  Of 
course,  such  a  house  as  such  a  man  would  require  the  architect  shall  form 
for  hnn  would  rise  obedient  to  his  will.  It  is  a  dwelling  where  the  art  of 
living  is  pleasantly  studied ;  where  painting  and  sculpture,  and  the  carver 
and  the  decorator,  have  found  abundant  illustration.  It  is  a  house  for  rich 
hospitality,  and  for  treasures  in  the  guise  that  word  takes  when  it  means 
what  it  derives  from  mastery  over  form  and  color.  We  afterward  in  this 
article  allude  to  the  provision  which  he  made  that  this  building  might  re- 


i886.]  Cornelius  and   William  H.   Vajiderbilt.  7  c 

main  associated  with  his  family  name.  Mr.  Vanderbilt  led  a  life  which  was 
so_  much  the  property  of  the  public,  at  least  they  claimed  it  was  so,  that 
it  is  pleasant  to  record  what  agreeable  surroundings  met  his  inner  unchron- 
icled  existence. 

Mr.  Vanderbilt  did  not  deny  himself  amusement,  and  it  was  of  a  nature 
that  seemed  to  give  him  a  real  delight.  We  doubt  if  an  advance  of  several 
points  in  the  "  Vanderbilts"  gave  him  greater  pleasure  than  that  his  fleet 
Maud  S.  should  take  one  or  two  seconds  from  her  record.  The  equine 
possessions  Avere  after  a  princely  cost.  Any  gentleman  who  lives  calmly 
through  winter  and  summer,  with  sixty,  seventy,  or  a  hundred  thousand 
dollars  palpitating  under  the  throbbing  of  a  delicately  groomed  animal,  has 
an  enviable  self-possession ;  but  it  is  a  pleasure  to  write  the  testimony  of 
him,  as  of  those  who  cared  for  the  servant  of  his  pleasure,  for  he  preferred 
to  decline  several  thousands  of  dollars  he  might  have  received,  rather  than 
take  away  Maud  from  gentle  treatment. 

But  not  by  the  quick  foot  alone  did  Mr.  Vanderbilt  like  the  stimulus  of 
speed.  When  he  travelled  over  his  own  road  he  proved  that  he  believed, 
as  did  his  father,  in  the  skill  of  his  engineers,  and  in  the  stability  of  the 
structure,  and  roadway,  and  rail ;  for  that  bird  would  have  had  quick  wing 
indeed  who  could  keep  up  with  the  president's  special.  He  often  crossed 
the  ocean,  and,  indeed,  with  the  famous  North  Star  world  tour,  and  his 
travel  with  his  invalid  brother,  he  saw  much  of  the  lands  that  differed  from 
his  own.  Unfortunately  for  him  there  was  such  a  machinery  of  pursuit  as 
the  telegraph,  and  when  "the  street"  could  not  see  beyond  its  own  me- 
nagerie, the  feverish  telegrams  invaded  the  quietest  place  to  which  he 
fled. 

His  was  a  welcome  shadow  when  it  for  the  moment  darkened  the  door 
of  the  artist,  foreign  or  domestic.  Fortunately  for  New  York,  and  for  him- 
self, he  had  the  will  to  bring  to  his  home-land  some  of  the  creations  of 
beauty  which  the  distinguished  artists  of  the  Old  World  produced,  and  with 
this  generous  will  there  was  such  power  as  art  did  not  resist.  He  gathered 
at  his  beautiful  residence  a  collection  which  has  associated  his  name  with 
that  education  derived  from  results  of  a  high  degree  of  art.* 

When  the  opportunity  presented  itself  to  our  people  to  have  placed  in 
the  new  and  yesterday-born  city  one  of  Egypt's  ancient  (in  the  full  meaning 
of  that  word)  monuments,  it  was  evident  that  its  possession  would  be  a 
treasure  to  us.  We  know  an  American  traveller  who,  when  explaining  to 
some  of  his  English  friends  our  hard-working  and  costly  curiosity  to  see 
their  ivy-clad  towers  and  picturesque  ruins,  said,  "  We  have  nothing 
old  in  our  country  except  the  sun  and  moon;"  and  his  hyperbole  had 
withm  It  a  truth.  What  can  a  New  Yorker  find  on  the  island  of  the  seven- 
teenth century  ?  Here  was  the  Khedive's  proffer  to  send  us  souvenir  of 
date  so  remote  that  we  had  no  history  to  welcome  it ;  but  how  shall  the 
Khedive's  generous  gift  come  to  us?  It  was  a  pillar  beyond  our  post. 
Even  our  express  companies  did  not  volunteer,  fearless  as  they  are.  Mr. 
Vanderbilt,  with  a  munificence  of  which  a  sovereign  might  have  been 
proud,  assumed  and  met   the  charge,  and  the  obelisk  lifts  up  its  old  head 

l>,lf*''^tV,  '^,'?';"''=*"  mentioning  to  Mr.  Gladstone,  at  Cannes,  in  March,  18S3,  that  the  gallery  of  xMr.  Vander- 
more  than  n  miuf.n  f  ^  n'  ^''^^  """""^  'M^  '■'"'^^'''  existing  collections  of  n.odern  art,  and  that  it  had  cost 
more  than  a  million  of  dollars -one  month's  income -he  answered  :  '•  If  your  neighbor's  income  is  twelve 
millions  per  annum,  he  is  much  richer  than  any  man  in  Her  Majesty's  dominions.'"  Apropos  of  this  Mr 
V=,n;!     imPi"'  0P"'ent  London  b.anker,  recently  said  to  the  writer:    "Dining  on  one  occasion  with  Mr' 

^rcanno'  savThat'l  do     ^/°  ''°V  "°'  *^"'^  '°  ""^fhrfU-^  ^  "'^y  S^"'  ^'^'<^"^  ?  '     "  ^eH,  no,'  he  answered 
I  cannot  say  that  1  do.     It  suits  mcvery  ivetl.  " — [Editors.] 


76  Cornelius  and   William  H.  Vanderhilt.  [April, 

to  keep  before  the  ages  that  New  York  had  a  private  citizen  who  could 
thus  welcome  it  to  its  new  home.* 

While  yet  in  the  youth  of  the  latter  years  of  man  he  yielded  to  the  De- 
stroyer, of  whom  it  is  said  : 

"  with  equal  hand,  impartial  Fate, 
Knocks  at  the  palace  as  the  cottage  gate." 

Everywhere  the  tidings  that  this  universally  known  citizen  had  suddenly 
died  in  his  library,  Tuesday  afternoon,  December  8,  1885,  went  as  the  wind 
goes,  and  men  calculated  consequences,  and  looked  at  the  indices  of  pub- 
lic thought  to  see  what  form  or  direction  the  shadow  would  take.  Small 
heed  was  all  this  to  those  within  that  dwelling.  Affection  was  the  inner 
interpreter  of  the  hour. 

When  the  disposition  by  will  of  his  estate  was  read,  it  was  found  that 
there  were  remembered  in  its  gifts  the  efforts  of  those  who  seek  abroad 
and  at  home  to  communicate  the  highest  education,  that  of  the  soul — the 
work  of  those  who,  in  the  city,  endeavor  to  place  it  before  the  younger 
and  the  forming  period  of  life — and  other  good  and  wise  purpose  ;  and  we 
welcome  that  desire  expressed  in  his  will  that  he  wished  the  home  he  had 
built  to  be  always  associated  with  the  family  name.  We  have  traced  that 
name  from  its  outcoming  at  the  Netherlands  village,  and  it  is  but  history  to 
say  that  he  bequeathed  its  continued  maintenance  in  foremost  place  to 
strong  succession,  and  which  promises  to  the  pages  of  this  periodical,  at  a 
date,  we  trust,  very  far  distant,  the  record  of  a  fulfilled  trust  and  a  gen- 
erous heart. 

His  funeral  was  an  example.  All  the  pageantry  of  the  journey  to  the 
grave  found  expression  only  in  the  quiet  unobtrusive  procedure  of  a  pri- 
vate citizen's  obsequies.  St.  Bartholomew's  Church  opened  its  doors  to 
the  religious  ceremonial,  which  was  that  which  is  said  when  either  rich  or 
poor  are  borne  there.  But  the  thronged  attendance  of  a  crowd  of  those 
memorable  in  various  phases  of  power  among  men  was  exceptional.  Mill- 
ions had  their  representatives,  and  were  warned  to  remember  that  there 
was  a  natural  body  and  a  spiritual  body — the  earthy,  the  heavenly.  The 
long  road  through  the  city  was  avoided,  the  nearest  route  to  the  Hudson 
taken,  and  the  quiet  passage  made  to  the  beautiful  island  where,  in  the 
family  cemetery,  near  the  Church  of  the  United  Brethren,  the  words  were 
spoken  which  told  that  dust  to  dust  and  earth  to  earth  was  for  all.  We 
have  elsewhere  spoken  of  his  bequests  and  their  high  usefulness.  The 
family,  in  united  action,  perfected  the  disposition  of  his  vast  estate,  which 
it  had  pleased  him  to  make  by  will.f 

*  The  obelisk  was  safely  and  skilfully  brought  from  Egyptian  shores,  and  set  up  in  the  Central  Park,  by 
the  highly  gifted  and  gallant  Lieutenant-Commander  Henry  H.  Gorringe,  of  the  United  States  Navy,  who 
died  during  the  past  summer,  greatly  lamented,  at  the  age  of  forty-five. — [Editors.] 

tThe  disposition  made  of  such  an  enormous  fortune  was  very  generally  discussed  by  both  the  American 
and  British  press.  The  New  York  Tribune  thus  wrote  editorially  on  the  topic  :  "  I\Ir.  Vanderbilt's  will 
will  attract  widespread  interest  as  the  most  important  in  a  financial  sense  ever  offered  for  probate.  It  is 
drawn  with  the  most  painstaking  care,  and  contains  indisputable  evidence  of  the  testator's  deliberate  purpose 
of  providing  equitably  for  all  his  heirs,  and  avoiding  grounds  for  dissatisfaction  and  litigation.  Each  of  the 
eight  children  has  a  bequest  of  $10,000,000 — $5,000,000  outright,  and  the  remainder  held  in  trust  by  the  four 
sons.  The  oldest  son  has  an  additional  bequest  of  $2,000,000,  and  his  oldest  son  one  of  §7,ooo,oco.  The 
widow  has  an  annuity  of  $200,000,  in  addition  to  the  residence  where  the  millionaire  died,  and  all  the  paint- 
ings, statuary,  and  works  of  art.  The  remainder  of  the  estate,  after  $1,000,000  has  been  reserved  for  public 
and  charitable  objects,  and  a  large  number  of  minor  bequests  have  been  made,  is  divided  equally  between 
the  two  oldest  sons,  Cornelius  and  William  Kissam  Vanderbilt.  The  practical  management  of  this  vast  es- 
tate is  thus  left  in  tbe  hands  of  the  two  heirs  conspicuous  for  executive  ability,  conservative  instincts,  and 
stability  of  character.  Mr.  Depew,  who  is  one  of  the  two  administrators,  has  stated  that  the  chief  heirs  have 
agreed  to  keep  the  railroad  securities  together  under  the  management  of  the  two  oldest  sons.  This  will  im- 
part unity  to  the  control  and  direction  of  this  immense  property,  and  the  irreproachable  reputation  which 
each  of  them  bears  is  a  guarantee  that  this  trust  will  be  e.vecuted  in  accordance  with  sound  business  princi- 
ples. Among  the  general  bequests  are  generous  gifts  to  Vanderbilt  University,  the  Metropolitan  Museum, 
the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association,  the  Domestic  and  Foreign  Missionary  Societies  of  the  Protestant 


1 886.]  Coriielius  and   Williayn  H.  Va7ide7-bilt.  yy 

That  was  a  memorable  meeting  which,  upon  due  call,  convened  at  the 
Grand  Central  Depot  at  noon,  on  December  loth,  to  take  action  upon  his 
death.  We  give  the  roll  of  the  railway  companies  represented  ;  it  eluci- 
dates what  we  have  before  written  of  the  magnitude  of  his  trusts  and  cares  : 
New  York  Central  &  Hudson  River  ;  New  York  &  Harlem  ;  Lake  Shore 
&  Michigan  Southern;  Michigan  Central;  Canada  Southern;  Chicago  & 
North  Western  ;  Chicago,  St.  Paul,  Minneapolis  &  Omaha  ;  New  York, 
Chicago  &  St.  l^ouis ;  Cleveland,  Columbus,  Cincinnati  &  Indianapolis. 

A  committee  made  enduring  memorial.  There  are  passages  in  this  me- 
morial that  we  would  gladly  transfer  to  this  page.  It  tells  of  his  sagacity, 
his  strong  common-sense,  his  thorough  knowledge  of  the  business,  his  will- 
ingness to  lend  of  his  vast  resources  in  time  of  peril,  his  invaluable  counsel. 
He  came  into  possession  of  the  largest  estate  ever  devised  to  a  single  indi- 
vidual, and  administered  the  great  trust  with  modesty,  without  arrogance, 
and  with  generosity.  His  domestic  life  was  simple,  notwithstanding  his 
unlimited  wealth,  and  a  happier  domestic  circle  could  nowhere  be  found. 

We  again  allude  to  the  connection  between  the  villages  of  de  Bildt  and 
Zeyst — near  neighbors  in  the  old  land.  There  is  not  probably  anywhere 
a  church  of  the  United  Brethren  more  richly  endowed  than  is  the  one  on 
Staten  Island,  made  so  by  the  well-devised  gift  in  this  will,  and  so  liberally 
and  gracefully  placed  in  operation.  Whoever  so  builds,  builds  wisely.  In 
the  various  and  powerful  bequests  here  made,  in  what  was  placed  in  those 
channels  of  organized  well-doing  to  our  fellow-men,  the  good  men  do  lives 
after  them.  We  vary  the  quotation  for  its  better  application  :  Its  influ- 
ences may  flow  on  in  a  direct  channel.  Even  in  the  brief  space  that  has 
elapsed  between  the  preparation  of  this  biograpical  sketch  and  the  promul- 
gation of  his  will,  one  of  his  daughters,  by  a  charity  associated  wilh  that 
tenderness  toward  suffering  humanity  which  is  the  gold  thrice  refined,  has 
added  a  new  exemplification  of  Christianity  to  the  charities  of  New  York. 
That  was  a  superb  gift  which  Mr.  W.  H.  Vanderbilt  made  the  College 
of  Physicians  and  Surgeons.  It  was  going  to  the  fountain-head  of  useful- 
ness ;  for  the  intelligent  men  who  compose  that  fraternity  are  vivid  in  their 
desire,  like  the  Athenians  of  old,  "to  hear  and  see  some  new  thing" — but 
not  in  the  gratification  of  curiosity,  but  to  know  from  what,  through  what 
avenue,  that  relief  to  human  suffering  will  come,  which  is  coming,  as  the 
curtain  of  our  civilization  rises.  This  gift  will,  perhaps,  enable  the  med- 
ical science  of  New  York  to  see  sooner  what  Jenner,  and  Morton,  and 
Jackson  saw,  and  whoever  else  has  been  the  agent  of  the  mercy  of  Heaven 
in  shutting  some  gateway  through  which  pain  enters  to  mortal  man. 

We  have  sketched  the  career  of  two  remarkable  men,  neither  holding 
any  exercise  of  government  authority  ;  working-men,  in  a  labor  that  sends 
more  wakeful  hours  to  the  night  than  does  the  tired  hand.  The  republic 
has  proven  that,  under  its  administration  of  the  affairs  of  men,  the  private 
citizen  can  possess  and  bequeath,  and  the  child  take  and  augment,  the 
opulent  inheritance  ;  that  the  untitled  private  citizen  can  create  and  enjoy 
a  wealth,  at  whose  call  all  that  even  unreasonable  human  wish  might  de- 
mand would  come  ;  and  that  all  that  the  republic  asks  is,  that  the  laws 
the  citizen  assists  in  making  may  be  his  own  rule  of  order. 

Episcopal  Church,  St.  Luke's  Hospital,  and  many  other  institutions  and  societies.  The  bequests  under 
this  head  aggregate  $1,000,000.  The  great  bulk  of  the  fortune,  however,  remains  for  the  use  of  Mr.  Vander- 
bilt's  children  and  grandchildren.  There  will  be  some  regret  felt  by  the  public  that  the  superb  collection  of 
art  treasures  has  been  retained  exclusively  for  the  enjoyment  of  the  family.  The  paintings  and  sculpture  are 
bcqeathed  to  the  widow,  and  upon  her  death  are  to  revert  to  the  youngest  son.  Mr.  Vanderbilt's  purpose, 
as  the  will  e.vplicitly  declares,  was  that  this  magnificent  residence  and  art  treasures  should  be  retained  and 
maintained  forever  by  a  descendant  bearing  the  family  name." — [Editors.] 


78  Address  of  General   Wilson.  [April, 


ADDRESS    OF   GENERAL   WILSON, 

President  of  the  Society,  delivered  on  Friday  Evening,  February 

12,  1886. 


(  With  Portrait:, 


Fellow-Members,  Ladies  and  Gentlemen :  It  is  my  first  duty  and  pleas- 
ure to  thank  the  Society  for  the  honor  recently  conferred  by  my  election 
to  the  presidency,  and  to  say  that  in  accepting  the  position  I  do  so  with  a 
full  appreciation  of  its  responsibilities,  and  with  an  earnest  expectation  of 
meeting  those  responsibilities.  It  is  my  sincere  hope  that  when  the  time 
shall  come  for  me  to  make  way  for  a  successor,  I  shall  leave  the  Society  in 
a  better  condition  than  I  found  it.  This  I  trust  will  be  done  by  the  addi- 
tion, during  the  present  year,  of  at  least  one  hundred  new  members ;  by 
the  accession  of  at  least  an  equal  number  of  new  subscribers  to  the  Society's 
quarterly  publication  ;  by  a  large  increase  of  the  fund  for  the  erection  of  a 
fire-proof  building,  for  which  a  highly  competent  committee  has  been 
named  this  evening,  and  by  making  a  large  addition  to  our  already  exceed- 
ingly valuable  library.  *  It  would  seem  to  your  speaker  that  we  should  not 
be  so  far  behind  our  sister  New  England  Society,  which  is  now  in  the  pos- 
session of  a  noble  fire-proof,  or  nearly  fire-proof,  building,  entirely  paid  for, 
and  with  a  fund  of  $25,000  for  its  extension,  when  required.  It  w^ould 
certainly  seem  that  this  great  city  should  enable  our  Society,  like  theirs,  to 
possess  a  much  larger  library,  and  a  valuable  collection  of  portraits,  includ- 
ing many  from  the  hand  of  Copley  and  Gilbert  Stuart.  The  Boston  So- 
ciety is  also  much  richer  in  biographical  and  genealogical  manuscripts. 
Why  is  there  such  an  absence  of  interest  in  family  history  in  our  city  and 
State,  when  all  New  England  is  in  a  blaze  of  genealogical  fervor,  and 
when  we  remember  the  weighty  words  of  Edmund  Burke,  who  said  :  "  Those 
who  do  not  treasure  up  the  memory  of  their  ancestors  do  not  deserve  to 
be  remembered  by  posterity  ?  " 

An  unknown  friend,  during  the  past  month,  deposited  in  a  financial  in- 
stitution of  this  city  the  munificent  sum  of  $100,000,  to  the  credit  of  the 
New  York  Historical  Society,  subject  to  the  condition  that  the  further  sum 
of  $300,000  shall  be  secured  before  the  end  of  1887,  for  the  purpose  of 
erecting  a  fire-proof  building.  Would  that  some  benevolent  gentleman 
would  do  the  same  kind  deed  for  the  New  York  Genealogical  and  Bio- 
graphical Society,  or  even  present  us  with  one-half  that  sum. 

'•  Far  on  in  summers  that  we  shall  not  see," 

some  wealthy  citizen  will  doubtless  find  it  in  his  heart  to  perform  this  gra- 
cious act  for  our  successors,  but  I  would  infinitely  prefer  that  it  should  be 
done  at  once,  in  the  living  present,  while  we  are  here  to  see  it.  It  vvould 
certainly  constitute  a  noble  memorial  for  any  man  or  woman  to  erect  such 
a  structure  which  would  bear  his  or  her  name  for  all  time. 

It  has  been  suggested  to  me,  as  appropriate  to  the  occasion,  that  1 
should  say  a  few  words  as  to  the  principal  aims  and  objects  of  our  associa- 
tion.    The  Society  was  organized  and  incorporated  in  1869,  and  the  found- 


i886.j  Address  of  General   Wilsofi.  79 

ers  are  still,  with  a  single  exception,  living  and  among  the  active  working 
members.      Its  chief  objects  may  be  briefly  stated  as  follows  : 

First.  To  collect  and  print  in  an  enduring  form  tlie  scattered  records  of 
the  early  Dutch,  Huguenot,  and  English  inhabitants  of  the  Colony  of  New 
Netherland  and  the  Province  and  State  of  New  York,  and  to  preserve  the 
pedigrees  of  their  families  ;  also,  as  far  as  practicable,  those  of  other 
families.  This  the  Society  is  successfully  accomplishing,  in  part  through 
the  medium  of  a  periodical  known  as  The  New  York  Genealogical  and 
Biographical  Record,  devoted  to  the  interests  of  American  Genealogy 
and  Biography,  edited  by  competent  members  of  the  Society^  and  now  in 
the  seventeenth  year  of  its  publication.  The  sixteen  bound  volumes  con- 
tain many  of  the  ancient  records  of  the  Dutch  and  other  New  York  and 
Long  Island  churches,  which  are  invaluable  to  those  who  are  interested  in 
their  ancestors  and  their  family  history.  As  a  single  instance  of  the  great 
value  of  the  Society's  quarterly,  it  may  be  mentioned  that  it  was  introduced 
as  evidence  in  the  English  House  of  Lords  during  the  past  year  in  the 
important  trial  as  to  the  legal  successor  of  the  late  Earl  of  Lauderdale. 

Second.  To  add  to  its  valuable  library,  which  already  contains  many 
works  that  are  rare  and  exceedingly  difficult  to  obtain,  American  biography, 
family  genealogies,  town,  county,  and  other  local  histories,  and  various 
volumes  relating  to  the  above  and  kindred  subjects. 

With  a  view  to  increase  the  usefulness  of  the  Society,  and  for  the 
purpose  of  enabling  it  to  add  to  its  funds  for  the  erection  of  a  fire-proof 
building  to  contain  its  valuable  archives  and  library,  it  is  earnestly  re- 
quested that  all  persons  to  whom  the  aims  and  objects  of  the  Society  com- 
mend themselves  should  become  members  of  the  same.  For  admission 
the  candidate  must  be  nominated  by  a  member  and  be  approved  and  voted 
in  at  a  regular  meeting.  The  initiation  fee  is  $5,  and  an  annual  payment  of 
a  like  sum.  The  payment  of  $50  constitutes  a  life  member.  Ladies  are 
eligible,  and  the  Society  now  has  a  number  of  such  members,  and  would 
gladly  welcome  many  more. 

My  four  predecessors  in  the  office  of  president  are  all  happily  still  with 
us,  and  are  still  active  members  of  the  Society.  Three  of  the  number  are 
here  this  evening.  First  to  honorably  fill  the  chair,  during  the  years  1869, 
1870-71-72,  was  Dr.  Henry  R.  Stiles,  a  well-known  writer  and  the  histo- 
rian of  Brooklyn,  as  Mrs.  Martha  J.  Lamb,  one  of  our  members,  is  of  New 
York,  and  who  is  at  present  one  of  our  vice-presidents  and  a  member  of 
the  Publication  Committee.  Mr.  Edward  F.  DeLancey,  a  gentleman  who 
bears  an  honored  old  New  York  name,  whose  activities  extend  to  the 
literary  and  social  life  of  our  city,  and  who  is  prominent  in  many  New  York 
organizations,  was  the  Society's  second  most  efficient  president,  occupying 
the  position  for  four  years.  In  1877  he  was  succeeded  by  a  veteran  soldier 
and  civil  engineer.  General  George  S.  Greene,  a  graduate  of  West  Point, 
who  served  with  gallantry  in  the  War  of  the  Rebellion.  His  term  of  office 
was  also  four  years,  when  he  was  succeeded  in  1881  by  Mr.  Henry  T. 
Drowne,  a  member  of  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati  and  a  gentleman  greatly 
interested  in  genealogical  and  historical  investigations.  Mr.  Drowne  en- 
joyed the  distinction  of  filling  the  office  of  president  for  a  period  of  five 
years,  which  brings  us  down  to  the  present  year  1886,  when  your  speaker 
was  elected  his  successor. 

Most  worthy  of  mention,  also,  are  four  members  of  the  Publication 
Committee  of  the  Society's  periodical.  The  New  York  Genealogical 


8o  Address  of  General   Wilson.  \_h.^xW, 

AND  Biographical  Record,  and,  as  has  been  stated,  now  in  its  seven- 
teenth year.  During  that  long  period  they  have  patiently  and  continuously 
toiled  and  delved  with  illegible  manuscripts,  fault-finding  contributors,  and 
printers'  proofs.  Neither  summer  heat  nor  winter  cold  have  ever  for  a  day 
dampened  their  ardor  or  their  enthusiasm.  With  fulness  of  knowledge  on 
this  point,  obtained  by  some  experience,  I  can  safely  assert  that,  much  as 
we  owe  to  our  excellent  quartette  of  presidents,  the  Society  is  still  more 
indebted  to  Dr.  Samuel  S.  Purple,  Mr.  Charles  B.  Moore,  Dr.  Henry  R. 
Stiles,  and  Mr.  John  J.  Latting,  for  sixteen  years  of  faithful  editorial  work 
on  The  Record.  Similar  services  could  scarcely  have  been  purchased  at 
less  than  that  number  of  thousand  dollars.  Many  persons  do  good  work 
for  their  fellow-men  in  this  world  without  experiencing  the  pleasure  of  hear- 
ing it  praised,  and  not  infrequently  pass  away  from  the  scene  of  their  labor 
without  knowing  that  it  is  properly  appreciated.  I,  for  one,  certainly  be- 
lieve in  the  justice  and  propriety  of  proclaiming  such  facts,  and  fully  sym- 
pathize with  the  sentiment  of  the  poet  Halleck,  when  he  said  : 

"  No  !  if  a  garland  for  my  brow 
Is  growing,  let  me  have  it  now, 

While  I'm  alive  to  wear  it. 
And,  if,  in  whispering  my  name 
There's  music  in  the  voice  of  fame, 

Like  Garcia's,  let  me  hear  it  !  " 

Was  there  ever,  by  the  way,  a  more  exquisite  compliment  paid  to  a 
sweet  singer  than  Fitz-Greene  Halleck  here  rendered  to  his  friend,  Felicia 
Garcia  ? 

Since  our  last  annual  meeting,  in  January,  1885,  we  have  to  mourn  the 
loss  of  five  members  of  our  Society,  who  have  passed  over  to  the  great 
majority.  First  among  these  stands  the  illustrious  soldier — my  honored 
friend  and  chief — who  now  sleeps  on  the  banks  of  that  stream  whose  waters 
flow  past  our  great  city  into  the  broad  sea ;  the  active,  ever-genial,  and 
sunny  senior  editor  of  the  New  York  Observer,  among  whose  latest  utter- 
ances— to  which  your  speaker  had  the  pleasure  and  privilege  of  listening — 
was  a  warm-hearted  tribute  to  the  memory  of  William  A.  Whitehead,  long 
the  efficient  head  of  the  New  Jersey  Historical  Society ;  Franklin  B. 
Hough,  the  industrious  author  of  some  two-score  useful  volumes  of  a 
biographical  and  historical  character ;  the  gallant  Admiral  Preble,  who 
added  several  genealogical  and  other  carefully  written  works  to  the 
literature  of  our  land,  and  the  venerable  John  Langdon  Sibley,  who  de- 
voted nearly  half  a  century  to  the  library  of  Harvard  University,  and  to 
the  biographies  of  her  many  thousand  graduates,  leaving  a  handsome 
fortune  for  the  erection  of  a  building  to  be  known  as  Sibley  Hall — a  free 
gift  to  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society. 

It  is  a  singular  circumstance  that  nowhere  on  the  American  Continent 
is  there  a  respectable  statue  of  its  illustrious  discoverer — a  man  than  whom 
none  are  worthier  of  such  an  honor.  This  is  not  creditable  to  the  country, 
nor  to  our  great  city,  where  it  is  manifestly  proper  the  statue  of  Columbus 
should  be  seen.  The  approaching  four  hundredth  anniversary  of  the  mo- 
mentous event  would  seem  to  be  an  appropriate  time  to  unveil  such  a  me- 
morial of  "  the  world-seeking  Genoese,"  and  I  would  earnestly  call  the 
attention  of  our  Society  to  the  subject,  with  the  hope  that  it  may  see  fit  to 
take  the  matter  in  hand,  and  urge  it  with  energy  upon  the  citizens  of  New 
York  and  upon  the  country  generally.     It  is  a  work  in  which   all  should 


iS86.]  Address  of  General  Wilson.  8 1 

feel  alike  interested.  On  my  return  from  a  recent  visit  to  Spain,  I  called 
the  attention  of  several  personal  friends  to  the  subject,  vi'ho  each  responded 
with  a  subscription  of  $ioo,  and  I  also  secured  a  site  in  the  Central  Park 
near  the  noble  ligures  of  Shakespeare  and  Sir  Walter  Scott.  Twelve 
thousand  dollars  will  purchase  a  replica  of  the  finest  statue  of  Columbus 
which  has  ever  been  made.  It  was  set  up  in  the  Plaza  de  Colon  of  Mad- 
rid in  1884,  and  meets  the  hearty  approval  of  the  Royal  Historical  Society 
of  Spain,  and  of  Columbus'  .lescendant,  the  Duke  of  Veragua,  who  will 
doubtless  be  present  with  a  Spanish  tieet  to  see  it  unveiled  in  October, 
1892,  You  have  a  photograph  before  you  of  this  spirited  statue  by  Sunal, 
and  also  a  portrait  of  the  Duke,  the  lineal  representative  of  Columbus, 
who  is  not  unlike  him  in  appearance.  To  your  speaker  said  the  late  King, 
who  also  expected  to  be  present,  "  Columbus  should  form  an  enduring 
bond  between  Spain  and  the  United  States." 

"  The  foolish  and  the  dead  alone,"  says  Lowell,  "  never  change  their 
opinions."  The  days  are  happily  past  and  gone  when  genealogical  inves- 
tigations are  made  the  subject  of  mirth  and  ridicule,  as  in  Sydney  Smith's 
era,  who  on  being  asked  about  his  grandfather  replied,  "  He  disappeared 
about  the  time  of  the  Assizes,  and  we  made  no  inquiries,"  and  who  on 
another  occasion  said,  "  The  Smiths  never  had  any  coat-of-arms  ;  they  al- 
ways seal  their  letters  with  their  thumbs  " — when  Lord  Chesterfield  placed 
among  his  progenitors  the  portraits  of  Adam  de  Stanhope  and  Evede  Stan- 
hope, or  when,  about  the  same  period,  a  picture  was  painted  for  a  proud 
English  peer,  representing  his  ancestor  leaving  the  ark  with  a  tin  box 
under  his  arm,  on  which  was  inscribed  "The  Somerset  Genealogy."  No  ! 
genealogy,  which  is  defined  as  "  an  enumeration  of  ancestors  and  their 
children  in  the  natural  order  of  succession,"  is  no  longer  a  subject  of  con- 
tempt, but  is  now  recognized  as  a  reputable  and,  indeed,  a  highly  laudable 
pursuit  and  subject  of  inquiry.*  It  is  closely  related  to  biography,  and 
biography  to  history.  It  has  been  forcibly  said  that  "History  is  the  essence 
of  innumerable  biographies."  The  finest  passages  of  Macaulay's  and  Mot- 
ley's admirable  histories  are  the  brilliant  passages  of  biography.  Strip 
their  works  of  these,  confining  them  to  a  narrative  of  events,  and  they 
would  prove  but  dull  books.  Emerson  asserted  that  there  was  properly 
no  history,  only  biography.  In  conclusion,  to  borrow  the  words  of  Presi- 
dent Wilder  :  "  Let  me  impress  on  you  the  duty  of  prosecuting  our  re- 
searches in  history  and  genealogy,  and  more  especially  in  biography,  with 
which  they  are  so  intimately  associated.  It  is  a  sacred  duty  to  preserve 
and  hand  down  to  future  generations,  not  only  the  lineage  and  history  of 
our  families,  but  to  record  the  names  and  virtues  of  those  men  and  women 
who  have  been  benefactors  to  our  race.  .  .  .  There  can  be  no  more 
noble  employment  than  that  of  treasuring  up  and  perpetuating  a  record  of 
the  lives,  principles,  and  virtues  of  those  who  have  been  benefactors  and 
blessings  to  mankind.  ...  Of  these  we  have  striking  examples  of 
patriotism,  discoveries  in  science,  and  startling  enterprise,  which  have  set 

*  The  late  Professor  William  C.  Fowler,  son-in  law  of  Noah  Webster,  in  his  "Memorials  of  the  Chaun- 
ceys,"  has  well  said,  "  The  genealogy  of  a  family  should  not  consist  merely  of  names  in  the  line  of  descent. 
In  addition  to  these  it  should  present  biographical  sketches  of  those  in  llie  line  who  ought  to  be  held  in 
everlasting  remembrance,  and  thus  at  once  gratify  a  natural  feeling  of  the  heart  and  conduce  to  its  moral 
improvement.  There  is  a  beautiful  illustration  of  my  view  on  this  point  in  one  of  the  genealogical  tables  in 
the  First  Book  of  Chronicles — '  And  Jabez  was  more  honorable  than  his  brethren.  And  Jabez  called  on  the 
God  of  Israel,  saying,  oh,  that  thou  wouldst  bless  me,  indeed,  and  enlarge  my  border  ;  and  that  thy  hand 
might  be  with  me,  and  that  thou  wouldst  keep  me  from  evil,  that  it  may  not  grieve  me  !  And  God  granted 
him  that  which  he  reiiuested.'  Because  he  was  more  honorable  than  the  others,  he  is  distinguished  by  this 
biographical  sketch,  while  only  the  bare  names  of  the  others  are  given." 


82  The  Rutgers  Family  of  New   York.  [April, 

elements  in  motion  that  are  fast  revolutionizing  the  character  and  business 
of  mankind.  Cf  such  were  Washington  and  his  associates,  who  achieved 
the  liberty  which  still  lives  and  marches  on  in  triumph  and  glory  through 
the  earth.  Of  such  was  Lincoln,  who,  heaven-inspired,  engraved  on  the 
pillars  of  our  constitution  eternal  freedom  for  the  slave.  Of  such  was 
Grant,  who  conquered  the  rebellion  and  brought  again  peace  and  union  to 
our  States.  ...  Of  such  was  Franklin,  whose  miraculous  hand  drew 
from  the  clouds  the  spark  which  now  electrifies  the  globe.  Of  such  was 
Morse,  who  taught  the  mystic  wires  to  speak  with  tongues  of  fire  all  the 
languages  of  the  earth.  Of  such  was  Fulton,  who  woke  the  spirit  of  the 
waters,  and  gave  a  new  impetus  to  the  commerce  of  the  world.  And 
last,  not  least,  of  such  were  those  messengers  of  mercy  who  brought  a 
sovereign  balm  to  blot  from  the  memory  conscious  suffering  in  the  human 
frame.  These  and  others  of  immortal  fame  have  trod  the  paths  of  human 
glory,  and  stand  out  like  golden  stars  in  the  constellation  of  American 
genius  to  light  the  road  to  honor,  virtue,  and  renown." 


THE  RUTGERS  FAMILY  OF  NEW  YORK. 


By  Ernest  H.  Crosby. 


( With  Portrait  of  Colonel  Rutgers.) 


Among  the  colonists  who,  on  October  ist,  1636,  embarked  at  Texel,  on 
the  yacht  Rensselaerswyck,  Jan  Tiebkins,  skipper,  was  Rutger  Jacobsen 
Van  Schoenderwoerdt.  The  vessel  was  bound  for  Fort  Orange  in  the  ser- 
vice of  the  first  Patroon.  Rutger,  as  his  last  name  indicates,  came  from 
Schoenderwoerdt,  a  pretty  Dutch  village,  two  miles  north  of  Leerdam  and 
four  miles  from  Vianen,  where  Van  Rensselaer  had  a  country  seat.*  Fort 
Orange  at  this  time  gave  little  promise  of  the  future  city  of  Albany.  Its 
site  had  been  a  trading-post  as  early  as  16 14.  The  fort  had  been  built 
seven  or  eight  years  later.  In  1646,  however,  it  had  only  ten  thatched 
cottages,  and,  indeed,  there  were  not  over  three  thousand  Europeans  in 
all  New  Netherland.  In  this  primitive  settlement  Rutger  became  a  man 
of  considerable  repute  and  wealth.  In  June,  1646,  he  married  Tryntje 
(Catharine)  Jansse  Van  Breesteede,  in  New  Amsterdam.  After  three 
years  of  married  life  he  went  into  partnership  with  Goosen  Gerritse 
Van  Schaick  and  rented  the  Patroon' s  brewery  for  450  guilders  a 
year,  and  one  guilder  additional  for  every  tun  of  beer  brewed.  In  the 
first  year  this  amounted  to  330  guilders,  and  in  the  second  they 
used  fifteen  hundred  schepels  of  malt.  In  1654  Rutger  bought  Jan  Jans 
Van  Noorstrant's  brew-house,  which  stood  on  what  is  now  Beaver  Street  in 
Albany,  nearly  opposite  the  present  Middle  Dutch  Church.  But  he  was  not 
only  a  brewer.  We  find  him  also  engaged  in  shipping  beaver-skins. f  He 
owned  a  sloop  on  the  river,  which  he  sometimes  commanded  himself,  but 
at  other  times  he  employed  Abraham  de  Truwe  as  master.  He  frequently 
bought  and  sold  building  lots  in  the  village  and  farming  land  in  the  neigh- 

*  vide  wood-cut  of  Schoenderwoerdt  in  Riker's  History  of  Harlem,  io8. 
+  Munsell's  Collections  on  the  History  of  Albany,  iii.,  207,  208. 


i886.]  The  Rutgers  Fatnily  of  New   York.  Z:i^ 

borhood.  In  1661  he  owned  a  share  in  Mohicander's  Island.  While 
Rutger  was  thus  becoming  a  rich  man,  he  was  held  in  honor  by  his  fellow- 
townsmen.  He  was  a  magistrate  in  1655,  and  probably  held  the  office 
until  his  death.  He  took  part  in  the  proceedings  of  a  peace  commission, 
which  was  appointed  to  treat  with  the  Indians.  He  is  known  as  "  the 
Honorable  Rutger  Jacobsen "  in  the  records,  where  his  signature  fre- 
quently recurs.  When  the  new  church  was  built,  in  1656,  he  was  selected 
to  lay  the  corner-stone,  which  he  did  on  June  2d  in  that  year.  This  church 
replaced  the  old  one  built  in  1643,  which,  being  only  thirty-four  feet  long 
and  nineteen  feet  wide,  and  containing  only  nine  benches,  had  become  in- 
adequate.* The  new  church  occupied  the  middle  of  the  road  at  the  corner 
of  Yonker  and  Handelaars— now  State  and  Market— Streets.  Rutger's  coat- 
of-arms  is  said  to  be  in  existence,  but  it  is  not  very  clear  where  he  obtamed 
it.  He  died  in  1665.  His  administrators  were  Ryckert  Van  Rensselaer 
and  Jan  Van  Bael.  At  the  sale  of  his  personal  effects  they  brought  983 
guilders  10  stivers.  His  silver  and  jewellery  alone  were  sold  for  512  guild- 
ers 14  stivers.f  His  wife  and  three  children  survived  him.  The  widow  is 
said  to  have  died  in  1 711,  after  marrying  Hendrick  Janse  Roseboom  in 
1695.  One  of  Rutger's  daughters,  Margaret,  married  Jan  Jansen  Bleecker 
in  1667,  and  became  the  ancestor  of  the  Bleecker  family.  Her  husband 
was  Mayor  of  Albany  in  1700.  Engeltje,  another  daughter  of  Rutger, 
appears  to  have  become  the  wife  of  Melgert  Abrahamse  Van  Deusen. 
Rutger's  only  son  was  Harman  Rutgers.J 

The  first  mention  of  this  son  to  be  found  in  the  records  describes  hnn 
as  a  private  in  the  Burgher  Corps  of  New  Amsterdam,  in  i653.§  He  mar- 
ried Catarina,  daughter  of  Anthony  de  Hooges,  Secretary  of  the  "Colonic" 
of  Rensselaerswyck,  after  whom  the  mountain  "Anthony's  Nose"  in  the 
Hudson  Highlands  was  named.  ||  Harman  was  a  brewer,  as  his  father  was 
before  him.  He  inherited  the  Van  Noorstrant  brew-house.  In  March, 
1675,  he  bought  a  brewery  on  the  eastern  half  of  the  present  Exchange 
Block  in  Albany,  and  sold  it  two  months  later.  1  The  Dutch  Church,  of 
which  he  and  his  wife  were  members,**  called  upon  him  to  supply  the  beer 
for  funerals.f  t  As  the  mourners  could  not  speak  English,  the  beer  fortu- 
nately did  not  furnish  them  on  these  occasions  with  an  ill  timed  pun.  In 
1678,  the  Collector  of  Excise  charged  Harman  with  selling  beer  to  the  In- 
dians unlawfully,  but  the  complaint  was  dismissed,  and  he  continued  to 
prosper.  He  bought  two  houses  and  lots  in  Albany  in  1683.JJ  About  the 
year  1693  the  Indians  had  become  so  troublesome  in  the  neighborhood  of 
Albany,  destroying  Harman's  barley  crops,  and  making  military  service 
against  them  necessary,  that  he  was  forced  to  remove  to  New  York,  takmg 
with  him  his  two  sons,  Anthony  and  Harman  (2d).     On  May  2,  1693,  he 

*  Pearson's  Contributions  for  the  Genealogies  of  the  First  Settlers  of  Albany  County,  from  1630  to  1800, 
II.  tMunsell's  Collections,  lii.,  83-85. 

±  At  about  this  time  the  Dutch  settlers  adopted  permanent  family  names.  Some  of  them  took  a  patro- 
nymic, as  in  the  case  of  Harman  Rutgers,  which  is  equivalent  to  Rutserson,  and  others  derived  their  sur- 
names from  their  native  towns  in  Holland.  Thus,  the  descendants  of  Rutger  Jacobsen  s  brother,  Teums, 
who  came  to  New  Netherland  in  1640,  kept  the  name  Van  Schoenderwoerdt,  which  has  been  shortened  to 
Van  Woert  (see  preface,  Pearson's  Albany  First  Settlers).  For  reference  to  Rutger  Jacobsen  and  his  fam- 
ily, eee  Munsell's  Albany  Collections,  index  ;  O'Callaghan's  History  of  New  Netherland,  1.,  430,  437  :  "■> 
587.  591  ;   Pearson's  Albany  First  Settlers,  93,  94  ;  Piker's  History  of  Harlem,  loi,  107,  los.  note 

§  O'Callaghan's  History,  ii..  569.  It  is  evident  that  Harman  was  not  tlie  son  of  Iryntje  Van  Breesteede, 
whom  Rutger  married  in  1646.  He  may  have  been  the  son  of  a  former  wife,  a  though  Rutger  is  not 
described  as  a  widower  in  the  marriage  record  ot  the  Dutch  Church,  as  was  usually  done  in  such  cases. 
Professor  Pearson  is  authority  for  the  statement  that  Harman  was  the  son  of  Rutger  Jacobsen  (Albany  tirst 
Settlers,  93,  94).  i|  Benson's  Memoir  on  Names,  51.  „„     ■       „ 

n  Munsell's  Coll.,  iii.,  iii,  112,  114.  **  Munsell,  i.,  97-  ++  Munsell's  Coll.,  1.,  28,  50. 

X%  Liber  3  of  Deeds,  p.  17,  Albany  County  Clerk's  Office. 


84  The  Rutgers  Family  of  New   York.  [April, 

bought  the  dwelUng-house  and  brewery  of  Isaac  de  Forest  (who  had  sailed 
from  Texel  with  Rutger  Jacobsen  and  died  in  1672)  from  his  heirs.  They 
were  on  the  north  side  of  Stone  Street,  near  Whitehall  Street,  in  New 
York.*     The  well  used  for  the  brewery  is  said  to  be  still  visible. 

On  New  Year's  Day,  1694,  Elsie,  the  daughter  of  Harman  (ist),  was 
married  to  David  Davidse  Schuyler,  at  one  time  Mayor  of  Albany.  After 
his  death  she  married  the  Rev.  Peter  Vas,  of  Kingston,  Ulster  County, 
whom  she  probably  met  at  Albany,  where  he  was  an  occasional  "supply."f 

Harman's  (ist)  elder  son, ^Anthony,  married  Hendrickje  Vandewater, 
of  New  York,  on  December  30,  1694,  and  went  to  housekeeping  in  the 
Dock  Ward,  east  of  Broad  Street.  He  was  a  brewer,  and  for  some  years 
appears  to  have  been  a  baker  as  well.  In  1699  he  was  admitted  as  a^  free- 
man in  New  York. 

The  younger,  Harman  (2d),  remained  with  his  father,  became  a  brewer, 
and  was  admitted  as  a  freeman  in  1696. 

In  a  census  of  New  York,  taken  about  the  year  1703,  the  family  of 
Harman  Rutgers  (ist)  is  represented  as  consisting  of  two  males  between 
sixteen  and  sixty  years  of  age,  one  female,  one  female  child,  and  two  male 
negroes.  The  first  three  were  evidently  the  elder  Harman  (ist),  his  wife, 
and  his  son  Harman  (2d).  Anthony's  household  in  the  Dock  Ward  was 
composed  of  himself,  his  wife,  two  sons,  and  one  negro  woman.  Harman 
Rutgers  (ist)  died  in  1711,  "  being  very  ancient  and  weak  in  body,"  as  he 
describes  himself  in  his  will. J  He  left  his  entire  estate  to  his  widow  Cath- 
arine for  life,  and  directed  it  to  be  divided  after  her  death  among  his  three 
children  by  his  "  well-beloved  friends,"  Nicholas  Roosevelt,  Johannes  Korf- 
byd,  and  Jacobus  Goelet. 

We  will  follow  first  the  fortunes  of  Anthony  Rutgers,  the  son  of 
Harman  Rutgers  (ist),  and  grandson  of  Rutger  Jacobsen.  Anthony 
was  probably  named  after  his  maternal  grandfather,  Anthony  de  Hooges, 
the  famous  Secretary.  In  1705  he  buys  a  dwelling-house  and  lot  on  Smith 
(now  William)  Street  and  a  lot  beyond  the  land  gate  on  the  New  Street. 
In  1 710  he  had  become  a  resident  of  the  North  Ward,  above  Wall  Street, 
and  in  that  year  and  the  two  years  succeeding  he  was  an  assistant  alder- 
man from  that  ward.  He  represented  it  as  Alderman  from  1727  to  1734. 
He  was  also  a  member  of  the  Colonial  Assembly  from  1726  to  1737.  In 
1 71 7  he  bought  land  on  Maiden  Lane  and  he  had  a  brew-house  and  resi- 
dence on  the  north  side  of  that  street  between  William  and  Nassau  Streets. 
He  also  purchased  a  tract  of  farm  land  lying  northwest  of  the  present  junc- 
tion of  Broadway  and  Chambers  Street,  and  extending  to  the  North  River. 
In  1723  he  bought  ten  acres  here,  and  in  1725  thirty-six  more. 

In  this  neighborhood  there  was  at  this  time  a  large  swamp  which 
caused  a  great  deal  of  malaria.  It  was  included  in  a  piece  of  seventy 
acres  of  public  land  which  the  local  government  could  only  lease  for  life. 
Anthony  presented  a  petition  in  1730  to  the  authorities  in  England,  asking 
that  the  swamp  might  be  granted  to  him  so  that  he  could  drain  it,  which  no 
mere  life-tenant  would  undertake  to  do.  Governor  Cosby  was  directed  to 
make  such  a  grant  by  an  order  of  the  King  in  Council,  made  at  Hampton 
Court,  on  August  12,  1731.  An  order  was  made  accordingly  in  the 
Council  of  New  York,   on   December   16,    i733.§     Anthony,   known  as 

*  Riker's  Harlem,  571,  572.  +  Munsell's  Annals  of  Albany,  i.,  91. 

X  Dated  March  6.  1710,  proved  April  25,  1711,  Liber  8  of  Wills,  p.  32,  N.  Y.  Surrogate's  Office. 
§  London  Ducnments,  xxiv.,  147  ;   Land  Papers,  x.,  171  ;  N.  V.  Council  Minutes,  xvi.,  277 ;  Valentine's 
Manual  of  the  Common  Council  for  1854,  529. 


ART01YPE    E.     BIERS1ADT     N.    Y 


i886.]  The  Rutgers  Family  of  New    York.  85 

Captain  Rutgers,  was  still  living  near  William  Street  in  i73i.'''  At  about 
this  time  he  buik  himself  a  house  on  his  new  farm.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  grand  jury  wi?ich  in  1741  investigated  the  Negro  plot. f  His  first 
wife  having  died  he  h^-'d  married  the  widow  Cornelia  Benson,  daughter 
of  Johannes  Roos,  AugUb'  25.  1716,  Anthony  died  in  1746,  and  she 
survived  him  until  i  760.  He  left  behind  him  one  son,  Peter,  a  grandson, 
Anthony  (3d),  son  of  a  deceased  son,  Anthony  (2d),  and  five  daughters, 
among  whom  his  property  was  divided. |  One  daughter,  Elsie,  had  married 
Leonard  Lispenard  in  1741,  and  he  bought  the  other  shares  in  the  North 
River  estate  in  1748.  It  became  known  in  consequence  as  "  the  Lis- 
penard farm,"  and  the  streets  which  afterward  traversed  it  took  the  family 
names  of  Leonard,  Lispenard,  and  Anthony  (now  Worth  Street),  The 
old  New  York  Hospital  building  afterward  occupied  a  part  of  this  estate. § 
Lispenard  was  a  prominent  citizen.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Provincial 
Congress  of  New  York,  ||  and  also  0/  the  Stamp  Act  Congress.  Another 
daughter  of  the  first  Anthony  was  Mary,  who,  in  December,  1749,  became 
the  wife  of  the  Rev.  Henry  Barclay,  rector  of  Trinity  Church.^  His  name 
is  perpetuated  in  Barclay  Street.  His  bride  vvas  a  lady  "  of  great  merit  and 
valuable  accomplishments."  -^^  The  Postboy\\  contains  a  poem  on  the  wed- 
ding addressed  to  "Inspiring  Phoebus."  Mrs.  Barclay  died  in  1788,  and 
the  New  York  Journal^Xl  in  recording  the  fact,  says  that  she  was  "justly 
esteemed  for  her  exalted  piety,  and  as  she  was  remarkably  charitable,  the 
poor  have  lost  a  valuable  friend."  Her  daughter  Cornelia  married  Colonel 
Stephen  de  Lancey,  and  another  daughter,  Anna  Dorothea,  was  the  wife 
of  Colonel  Beverly  Robinson.  Her  son.  Colonel  Thomas  Barclay,  married 
Susan  de  Lancey,  and  had  a  large  family.  Three  of  his  daughters  married 
respectively  William  B.  Parsons,  Schuyler  Livingston,  and  Peter  G. 
Stuyvesant. 

The  oldest  child  of  Anthony  Rutgers  (ist)  who  lived  to  maturity  was 
his  son  Peter.  He  was  born  in  1701,  became  a  brewer  in  Maiden  Lane, 
and  married  Helena  Hoogland.  He  was  an  assistant  alderman  from  the 
East  Ward  from  1730  to  1734,  and  was  spoken  of  as  an  "eminent  mer- 
chant." He  was  Captain  of  the  First  Independent  Company  of  Cadets. 
He  died  in  August,  1745.  "He  was  a  gentleman  much  esteemed  for  his 
generosity  and  fatherly  affection  to  his  company,  and  his  funeral  was 
attended  by  almost  all  the  principal  inhabitants  of  this  place,  being  uni- 
versally lamented."  §§  His  eldest  son,  Anthony,  was  a  lawyer,  and  married 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Charles  Williams,  Naval  Officer  of  the  Port  of  New 
York.  This  Anthony  died  in  1754,  and  his  widow,  two  years  after,  married 
Colonel  Frederick  Philipse,  last  proprietor  of  the  manor  of  Philipsburgh. 
She  was  described  in  the  Nezv  York  Mercury\\  as  "  a  very  agreeable  lady, 
and  possessed  of  every  virtue  and  accomplishment  that  can  adorn  her  sex 
and  make  the  marriage  state  truly  happy."  Peter's  daughter,  Helena, 
married  John  Morin  Scott.  He  was  a  graduate  of  Yale  College  and  a  dis- 
tinguished lawyer  and  politician.  He  served  as  brigadier-general  in  the 
Revolution.  In  1777  he  became  Secretary  of  State  of  New  York,  and  he 
was  a  member  of  the  Continental  Congress  in  1782  and  1783.     His  son, 

*  N.  y.  Gazette,  No.  321.  t  Mrs.  Lamb's  History  of  New  York,  i.,  582. 

X  See  his  will,  Lib.  16,  p.  12,  N.  Y.  Surrogate's  OtTice. 

§  Mrs.  Lamb's  New  York,  vol.  i.,  723,  note;  ii.,  307.  ||  lb.,  ii.,  31,  note. 

1  Jb.,  i.,  632.     For  an  account  of  the  Barclay  family  vide  Holgate's  American  Genealogy,  p.  132. 

**  Postboy,  December  18,  1749.  +t  December  25,  1749.  %%  June  12,  1788. 

§§  Postboy,  August  26,  1745.  Ill  September  13,  1756. 


86  The  Rutgers  Family  of  New    York.  \  April, 

Lewis  Allaire  Scott,  was  also  Secretary  of  State  of  New  York.*  Helena 
Rutgers,  the  widow  of  Peter,  died  in  December,  1773,  "at  her  house  in 
the  Fly."  f 

Anthony  Rutgers  (2d),  the  younger  brother  of  Peter,  and  son  of 
Anthony  (ist),  married  Margarita  Klopper  on  January  10,  1741,  and  died 
before  his  father.  He  left  an  only  son,  Anthony  A.  Rutgers,  whom  we 
shall  call  Anthony  (3d).  His  grandfather,  Anthony  (ist),  left  him  his  brew- 
house  and  residence  in  Maiden  Lane.  He  also  received  a  share  of  the 
farm  on  the  North  River.  On  June  6,  1762,  he  married  Gertruyda, 
daughter  of  Nicholas  Gouverneur,  of  Newark,  N.  J.,  "  a  young  lady  of 
great  beauty  and  merit,"  \  which  qualities  seem  to  have  been  the  common 
property  of  all  young  ladies  of  that  day.  Anthony  (3d)  owned  the  Rane- 
lagh  Gardens  at  the  head  of  Broadway,  where  Duane  Street  now  crosses  it. 
They  were  leased  to  one  Jones,  who  gave  entertainments  in  them.  A  band 
of  music  played  there  on  Mondays  and  Thursdays.  In  1775,  Anthony  Rut- 
gers is  named  as  Captain  of  the  Second  Company  of  Artillery,  one  of  the 
"new  companies  raising."  He  subsequently  removed  to  Newark  and  died 
there  in  1784,  leaving  four  sons  and  two  daughters.  His  son  Anthony  A. 
(Anthony,  4th)  was  a  merchant  and  at  one  time  lived  at  Curaq;oa.  He  was 
one  of  the  original  shareholders  of  the  Tontine  Coffee  House.  On  April 
17,  1790,  he  married  Cornelia,  daughter  of  Hugh  Gaines,  the  editor,  pub- 
lisher, and  printer.  "  The  schooner  which  lay  in  the  East  River  was 
decorated  in  honor  of  the  occasion  with  a  very  numerous  variety  of  the 
colors  of  all  nations  and  exhibited  a  most  beautiful  appearance."  §  Har- 
man  G.  Rutgers,  also  a  son  of  Anthony  (3d),  married  Sarah,  another 
daughter  of  Hugh  Gaines. 

Nicholas  Gouverneur  Rutgers  was  also  a  son  of  Anthony  (3d).  He 
started  in  busines  swith  his  grandfather's  house,  Gouverneur  &  Kemble, 
and  was  afterward  at  the  head  of  the  firm  of  Rutgers,  Seaman  &  Ogden, 
at  79  Pearl  Street,  who  were  the  agents  in  New  York  of  Anthony  (4th). 
Nicholas  G.  Rutgers  was  also  for  many  years  president  of  the  Mutual 
Insurance  Company.  He  married  Cornelia,  daughter  of  John  Livingston, 
and  granddaughter  of  Robert  Livingston,  third  owner  of  the  manor.  After 
her  death  Nicholas  married  his  third  cousin,  Eliza  Hoffman.  He  died  in 
1857,  at  the  age  of  eighty-six,  leaving  behind  him  two  sons  and  several 
daughters,  all  children  of  his  first  wife. 

We  will  now  return  to  Harman  (2d),  the  brother  of  Anthony  (ist),  son 
of  Harman  (ist),  and  grandson  of  Rutger  Jacobsen.  We  left  him  living 
with  his  father  in  Stone  Street,  and  engaged  in  business  with  him  as  a 
brewer.  In  his  family  Bible  he  makes  the  following  entry  as  of  December 
25,  1706:  "I,  Harman  Rutgers,  was  married  to  Catharina  Meyer  by 
Dominie  De  Booys.  May  the  Lord  grant  us  a  long  and  happy  life  to- 
gether. Amen."  He  bought  land  on  Maiden  Lane  at  about  this  time 
and  added  to  it  afterward.  When  his  father,  Harman  (ist),  had  died  in 
171 1,  Harman  (2d)  removed  to  a  house  on  the  north  side  of  Maiden  Lane, 
at  the  corner  of  the  present  Gold  Street,  and  estabUshed  a  brewery  there. 
He  thus  mentions  the  fact  in  his  Bible:  "1711,  December  4th.  We  re- 
moved from  mother's  house  to  our  own  place  in  the  Vly,  and  have  made 
the  first  beer  there  the  24th  of  December.     May  the  Lord  bless  us  in  the 

*  Mrs.  Lamb's  New  York,  ii.,  49,  note  i,  8g,  note,  285,  308. 

+  Maiden  Lane.     Rivington's  New  York  Gazette,  December  30,  1773. 

X  New  York  Mercury,  June  14,  176*.  §  New  York  Journal,  April  22,  1790. 


^^^^•J  The  Rutgers  Family  of  New    York.  3^ 

r;°!lf  °"'  ^'"^'•",    ^^^^  ^''^^'^  ^^^^^^^"  Maiden  Lane  and  John  Street 

man  ?T.77  >'77  ^nown  as  Rutgers  Hill.     Catharine,  the  widow  of  Har: 

Tn    ri     1'    ^'"^  ^'  *^'^.  ''r.^'"  '"  ^'^"^  Street  until  her  death.     It  was  sold 

n    1729.*     Harman   (2d)   lived  a   prosperous   and   quiet   life.     He   was 

the  family.     He  was  one  of  the  struck  jury  in  the  famous  Zenger  trial  in 

C.oL^^r^"'}^^"^\^'^^  '"^  ^'^  newspaper  upon  the  course  of  Governor 
Cosby  s  supporters  in  the  Council  in  the  controversy  with  Rip  Van  rSm 
President  of  the  Council.     He  was  indicted  for  sedifious  hbe  .     ?^ie  jury 
acquitted  him  and  sustained  the  freedom  of  the  press.     Gouverneur  MorHs 

^dfh^  '"'  m"  '"'^  "'^  "-'^^  S^"^^  of  American  freedom ''mrrn 
(2d)  la  d  up  sufficient  money  in  time  to  purchase  a  farm  of  over  a  hund  ed 
acres,  lying  east  of  the  site  of  Chatham  Square,  and  comprisfn'  all  of    he 

W:?^'  nrJ' Yo"'  ^r  f  ^^-^g--'y  Str;et  and  a  ila^t  of  the  Fou  h 
Ward.  It  had  a  long  waterfront  on  the  East  River.  This  land  sunolied 
his  breweries  with  barley.  He  bought  the  greater  portion  of  this  estate 
froin  the  widow  and  children  of  Hendrick  Cornelisson  Vai  Sc'aicf  n 
1728.  He  acquired  the  rest  n  i'::?2  and  1727  Th^  Vo,.  c  1  ,  r 
was  the  originil  Bowery  No.  6,  gr^'ntedt  Co'r'neliJ  .clbson  StThe'  etlv 
m  the  Dutch  regime.  In  1728  the  farm-house  stood  on  the  Bowe^v  road 
a  about  what  is  now  the  southeast  corner  of  East  Broadway  and  o'er 
Street.     The  barn  vvas  near  the  present  southeast  corner  of  Catharine  and 

(2d),  took  up  his  residence  and  had  a  brew-house  during  his  father'.  Til 
In  X  731  the  New  York  Assembly  met  in  '<  the  house  of  Mr  r1^^^^^^^ 
the  Bowery  road,"  on  account  of  the  small-pox  which  was  preva  ent  fn 
town.§     Captain  Rutgers'  wharf  is  mentioned  as  one  of  four  places  f^^ 

28    n";  "His'Rihl''-^\?  'f  "'^^  oiYi.r....  (3d),  died  on  February 
2«,  1737.      His  Bible  notes  the  fact  as  follows  :   "My  dearly  beloved  wife 
Cathai-ine  Rutgers  rested  in  the  Lord."     A  newspaper  of  Alarch  i    17^ 
gives  further  details  :    Mrs.  Rutgers  -eat  her  breakfast  as  us  la    and  abou; 
nine  or  ten  o'clock  was  taken  with  a  fit  and  dyed  about  four  tn  'Se  after 

si^drenr-'^Ti.'  7^''  ^^  ^'^  rA  ^"^p^^-  ^'  ^-"  ^^ 

lamily  and  triends  The  widower  consoled  himself  by  marrying  Margaret 
tn  ^f  '  \  f  ^"^^^^"gl^ter  of  Isaac  de  Forest,  who  forme  ly  owned  the 
Stone  Street  brewery.  Harman  (2d)  died  in  August,  1753.  ^Zcaz^l 
of  August  13,  1753,  contains  the  following  paragraph -^WdavT/ft 
departed  this  life  in  an  advanced  age  M?.  Hermanns'  Rutier?  aMrv 
eminent  brewer  of  this  city  and  a  worthy,  honest  man."     He  had^'two  Ions 

o?hi  fi't t^fl^  Hi"'"  M^'  ^"  ^n^'  ^§^'  -^"^  ^^-y  --^  '^  Children 
ot  his  first  ;Nife      His  son  Harman    3d   died  before  him.     Of  his  daughters 

Elsie  married  John  Marshall,  Catharine  married  Abraham  Van  Hor^e  and 
Eva  married  John  Provoost.  Eva's  eldest  son,  Samuel  Provoost,  wa  rector 
o  Irmity  Church,  and  afterward  the  first  Protestant  EpiscopTbishon 
of  New  ^ork.  He  was  the  first  American  bishop  consecrated  the  rite 
being  performed  in  his  case  by  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury       '  '" 

nPoSTr;;  ^"^^  ^f^  -n'  ^^"^'""S'  store-house,  malt-house,  brew-house 
negro  kitchen,  malt-mill  and  mill-house  on   Maiden    Lane  and  Rutgers 

*  Liber  31  of  Deeds   p  3,5,  N.  Y.  Register's  Office. 
!      t  Jn"valenHn '?'\7  °^  ^^^,7°^^,  i.,  3S4  ;  Mrs.  Lamb's  New  York,  f.,  362 

member  of  the  Legislature  at 'that '?me  '^  ^^"^  '''""  '^^  °^"  '^°"^=  °f  ^"'h°"y  (^^0.  who  was  a 


88  The  Rutgers  Family  of  New  York.  [April, 

Street  (on  Rutgers  Hill)  to  the  widow  of  his  son  Harman  (3d)  for  life.* 
She  was  Elizabeth  Benson,  daughter  of  Harman  (2d)'s  sister  in-law,  Mrs. 
Anthony  Rutgers,  by  her  first  husband.  After  Elizabeth's  death  the  estate 
was  to  go  to  her  eldest  son,  Robert  (ist).  She  appears  to  have  carried  on 
the  brewery  herself  for  some  time,  f  but  finally  gave  it  up  to  Robert  (ist) 
as  her  tenant.  In  her  old  age  she  became  noted  as  the  plaintiff"  in  the  suit 
of  Rutgers  z;j.  Waddington.  She  had  fled  from  New  York  at  the  opening  of 
the  Revolution,  and  the  defendant  Waddington  had  occupied  her  house 
under  British  military  authority.  The  Legislature  of  New  York  passed  an 
act,  giving  a  right  of  action  for  trespass  to  the  former  owner  against  the 
occupant  in  such  cases.  This  suit  was  tried  in  1784  and  made  a  test  case. 
Alexander  Hamilton  appeared  as  counsel  for  the  defendant.  His  argu- 
ment was  successful.  The  court  disregarded  the  statute  and  decided  in 
favor  of  Waddington.  This  decision  affected  many  similar  actions,  and 
was  regarded  as  a  great  Tory  victory.  A  mass  meeting  was  held  to  pro- 
test against  it. J  Elizabeth  became  a  resident  of  Red  Hook,  Dutchess 
County,  and  died  in  1795.  She  had  three  sons  and  three  daughters.  The 
eldest  of  these  was  Robert  Rutgers  (ist),  who  married  Elizabeth,  daughter 
of  Dr.  William  Beekman.  Robert's  son  Gerard  married  Margaret  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Nicholas  Bayard.  Gerard  and  his  brother  Robert  (2d)  became 
residents  of  Belleville,  N.  J.  Their  sister  Catharine  married  Stephen  Van 
Cortlandt  and  also  lived  in  New  Jersey. 

The  third  Harman' s  second  son,  Harman  (4th),  was  a  merchant  and 
died  unmarried.  His  third  son  was  Captain  ^Anthony  Rutgers.  In  1754 
he  was  captain  of  a  "snow."  He  is  mentioned  once  as  sailing  from  Port 
Royal,  In  1 758  and  1 759  he  commanded  the  privateer  snow  "  Boscawen," 
and  sent  several  prizes  into  New  York,  In  1760  he  had  the  letter  of 
marque  brig  King  George.  In  1765  and  1766  he  was  Assistant  Alderman 
from  the  North  Ward.  He  owned  a  rope-walk  in  conjunction  with  Jacob  Le 
Roy  prior  to  1 769,  and  afterward  carried  on  the  business  alone  at  his  store  in 
Maiden  Lane.  He  is  said  to  have  been  one  of  the  twenty-three  original  mem- 
bers of  the  New  York  City  Masonic  Society.  They  were  all  sea-captains, 
and  their  certificates  were  dated  January  8,  1770.  In  1775  Anthony  was 
a  member  of  the  New  York  Provincial  Congress.  He  died  in  18 14.  §  An- 
thony's partner,  Jacob  Le  Roy,  married  successively  his  two  sisters  Cor- 
nelia and  Catharine  Rutgers,  and  was  the  ancestor  of  a  large  family,  among 
whom  may  be  mentioned  his  granddaughter  Caroline,  daughter  of  Her- 
man Le  Roy,  who  was  the  second  wife  of  Daniel  Webster.  A  younger 
sister  of  the  wives  of  Jacob  Le  Roy  was  named  Mary,  and  married  An- 
thony Hoffman.  Their  daughter  Eliza  Hoffman  became  the  second  wife 
of  her  kinsman  Nicholas  G.  Rutgers  and  had  no  issue.  She  survived  him 
and  lived  in  New  Brunswick,  N.  J. 

Harman  (2d),  having  left  the  greater  part  of  his  Maiden  Lane  prop- 
erty to  the  family  of  his  deceased  son  Harman  (3d),  provided  for  his 
younger  son  Hendrick,  by  leaving  him  in  his  will  his  farm  near  the  Fresh 
Water,  in  the  Out  Ward,  which  he  had  bought  from  the  Van  Schaicks  and 
others,  "  where  he  my  said  son  now  lives.  "||     This  devise  included  a  brew- 

*  Lib.  18  of  Wills,  p.  347,  N.  Y.  Surrogate's  Office. 

tN.  Y.  Historical  Society  Collections,  1881,  xiv.,  p.  12. 

X  McMasters'  History  of  the  People  of  the  United  States,  i.  125,  219,  220  ;  New  York  Packet,  Novem- 
ber 4,  1784.  See  Dawson's  pamphlet  entitled.  The  case  of  Elizabeth  Rutgers  v.  Joshua  Waddington,  de- 
termined in  the  Mayor's  Court  in  the  City  of  New  York,  August  7,  1784. 

§  The  number  of  Anthonys  and  Harmans  in  the  Rutgers  family  makes  it  difficult  to  be  accurate  in  de- 
termining which  one  is  referred  to  in  any  particular  instance  by  contemporary  records. 

1  See  his  will,  Lib.  18,  p.  347,  N.  Y.  Surrogate's  Office, 


iS86.]  The  Rutgers  Family  of  New    York.  g^ 

house  which  stood  on  that  part  of  the  farm  now  bounded  by  Henry,  Madi- 
son, Jefferson,  and  CHnton  Streets.  Hendrick  was  born  on  February  20, 
1 712.  When  he  was  thirteen  years  old  he  was  apprenticed  to  his  cousin  by 
marriage,  Thomas  Thong,  merchant,  for  seven  years.  Thong  undertook 
"  to  cause  said  apprentice  to  be  taught  the  Art  or  Mistory  of  a  Merchant."* 
On  January  9,  1732,  Hendrick  married  Catharine  de  Peyster,  daughter  of 
Johannes  de  Peyster,  at  one  time  Mayor  of  New  York.f  In  his  family 
Bible  he  states  that  the  ceremony  was  performed  by  "  my  uncle,  the  Rev. 
Peter  Vas,  preacher  at  Kingston  in  Esopus."  \  Hendrick  was  the 
fourth  of  his  family,  son  after  Jather,  who  married  a  Catharme.  In  1738 
he  was  an  ensign  in  Captain  Van  Home's  company  of  militia,  and  was  pro- 
moted to  the  second  lieutenantcy  in  Captain  Van  Wyck's.  Soon  after  his 
father's  death  in  1753,  Hendrick  built  a  residence  for  himself,  with  bricks 
brought  from  Holland,  on  the  East  River  farm  near  the  brew-house.  The 
site  of  this  house  is  now  covered  by  the  block  bounded  by  Monroe, 
Cherry,  Jefferson,  and  Clinton  Streets.  This  was  then  close  to  the  river. 
We  know  that  the  house  was  completed  by  November,  1755,  because  the 
Lisbon  earthquake  on  the  fifth  of  that  month  shook  down  the  iron  window- 
bars  which  were  leaning  against  its  walls  in  the  day-time.  §  Just  west  of 
the  brew-house  was  a  fish-pond  which  emptied  into  the  river  between  the 
present  Rutgers  and  Jefferson  Streets.  A  garden  east  of  the  house  re- 
mained unchanged  for  over  a  century,  and  another  garden  and  various 
outbuildings  occupied  the  land  between  the  house  and  the  brewery. 

The  city  in  time  grew  toward  Hendrick's  farm,  and  he  had  a  portion 
of  it  laid  out  in  streets  and  lots.  He  agreed  with  James  de  Lancey  on  a 
boundary  line  between  their  farms.  It  ran  along  Division  and  Little  Di- 
vision (now  Montgomery)  Streets,  from  which  circumstance  those  names 
are  derived.  Hendrick  named  Catharine  Street  after  his  wife.  Madi- 
son Street  was  called  Bancker  Street  and  then  Bedlow,  after  two  of  his 
sons-in-law.  Henry  Street  bears  the  name  of  one  of  his  sons.  Harman 
Street  has  become  East  Broadway.  The  present  Rutgers  Street  was  so 
called  on  the  map  as  early  as  1775.  Oak  Street  once  bore  that  name, 
but  it  became  so  disreputable  that  the  name  was  changed  in  deference 
to  the  family.  George  and  Charlotte  Streets  have  dropped  their  royal 
titles  and  are  to-day  plain  Market  and  Pike  Streets.  ||  When  the  war 
broke  out,  Hendrick,  with  the  other  patriots,  was  obliged  to  leave  the  city, 
and  took  up  his  residence  at  Albany.  Here  he  died  in  1779.  His  death 
is  noted  in  Rivington's  Royal  Gazette  *{  as  follows  :  "  On  the  thirteenth  in- 
stant died  at  Albany,  in  his  sixty-ninth  year,  Hendrick  Rutgers,  Esq.,  a 
member  of  the  Dutch  Reformed  Church  and  a  gentleman  of  very  large 
estate  in  this  city."  In  his  will  he  gives  two  hundred  pounds  a  year  to  his 
widow.  To  his  son,  Henry,  he  leaves  all  his  land  between  Rutgers  and 
Clinton  Streets,  including  his  house,  brew-house,  and  other  buildings.  His 
other  property  he  divides  among  his  children.**  His  household  effects  were 
appraised  at  ^^922  7s.  ifd.,  and  his  silver  plate  alone  at  ^ii9.ff  He  had 
three  sons  named  Harman,  the  first  two  of  whom  died  in  infancy.     The 

*  Liber  zg  of  Deeds,  p.  294,  N.  Y.  Register's  Office. 

t  For  an  account  of  the  de  I^cyster  faniily  vide  Valentine's  Manual,  1S61,  p.  556. 

{The  original  entries  in  this  Hible  and  the  one  of  Harman  quoted  above  are  in  the  Dutch  language. 

§  }'ide  picture  of  this  house  in  1765  in  Valentine's  Manual,  1S58,  p.  606. 

I;  See  Post's  Old  .Streets  of  New  ^ork.  1  August  7,  1779. 

**  Lib.  33  of  Wills,  p.  201,  New  York  Surrogate's  Office. 

tt  I  have  an  old  impression  of  a  book-plate  of  liendrick  Rutgers  with  his  coat-ofarms,  which  I  venture  to 
describe  :  arms,  a  lion  rampant  surmounted  of  a  fess,  charged  with  a  star;  on  a  chief  a  demi-eagle  displayed 
crest ;  a  demi-wild-man  holding  a  baton  over  his  head  ;  motto,  tanter  da  dir,  which  I  cannot  translate. 


90  The  Rutgers  Family  of  Neiv   York.  [April, 

third  was  a  merchant  and  never  married.  He  was  killed  at  the  battle  of 
Long  Island,  on  August  27,  1776,  while  fighting  against  the  British  troops.* 
Hendrick's  eldest  daughter,  Catharine,  married  William  Bediow,  grandson 
of  Isaac  Bediow  of  Bedlow's  Island.  He  was  a  sea-captain,  and  afterward 
a  merchant.  In  1784  he  was  postmaster  of  New  York  City.  He  had  a 
son,  Henry,  a  daughter,  Mary,  who  married  John  Beekman,f  and  another 
daughter,  Catharine,  wife  of  Dr.  Ebenezer  Crosby,  who  had  come  to  New 
York  from  Braintree,  Mass.,  and  was  at  one  time  surgeon  of  General  Wash- 
ington's Guard,  and  afterward  professor  of  medicine  at  Columbia  College. 
He  wis  the  ancestor  of  the  Crosby  family  of  New  York.  Henry  Bedlow's 
son,  Henry,  was  at  one  time  Mayor  of  Newport,  R.  I.  Hendrick's  second 
daughter,  Anna,  became  Mrs.  William  Bancker.  Her  granddaughter, 
Elizabeth  de  Peyster,  married  Henry  Remsen,  who  was  private  secretary 
to  President  Jefferson,  and  for  many  years  President  of  the  Manhattan 
Company.  Hendrick's  two  younger  daughters  married  respectively  Gerard 
de  Peyster  and  Dr.  Stephen  McRea. 

The  only  son  of  Hendrick  who  survived  him  was  Hendrick,  or  Henry, 
Rutgers.  He  was  born  on  October  7,  1745,  and  was  graduated  at  Kings 
(now  Columbia)  College  in  the  class  of  1766.  He  entered  the  Continen- 
tal army  at  the  outbreak  of  the  Revolution.  On  May  8,  1775,  "Captain 
Rutgers,J  at  the  head  of  his  company  of  grenadiers,  met  the  Boston,  Con- 
necticut, and  New  York  delegates  to  Congress  at  the  Ferry  and  proceeded 
with  them  to  Newark."  He  was  still  a  captain  in  1776  and  took  part  in 
the  battle  of  White  Plains.  "  He  continued  actively  and  usefully  employed 
as  an  officer  until  the  close  of  the  war."  §  Meanwhile,  during  the  occu- 
pation of  New  York  by  the  British  army,  the  Rutgers  house  was  used  as  a 
hospital.  The  marks  of  confiscation  on  its  doors  were  visible  in  1830. 
The  brewery  was  used  first  as  the  hospital  kitchen  and  afterward  as  a  re- 
pository of  naval  stores.  ||  At  the  end  of  the  war  Henry  had  become  the 
owner  of  the  homestead.  He  kept  bachelor's  hall  there  until  his  death, 
nearly  fifty  years  later.  He  was  possessed  of  great  wealth,  and  it  seems 
that  he  never  engaged  in  any  business.  He  found  his  time  sufficiently 
occupied  in  attending  to  his  estate,  which  he  fortunately  refused  to  sell 
when  he  had  the  opportunity  in  1783.^  He  was  an  qfficer  in  the  militia 
after  the  war.  On  October  24,  1788,  we  learn  that  the  First  Regiment, 
New  York  Militia,  under  Major  Henry  Rutgers,  was  reviewed  by  Brig- 
adier-General Malcom.**  The  parade  ground  was  on  his  own  land.  On 
July  27,  1790,  "President  Washington  and  Governor  Clinton,  with  the 
chiefs  of  the  Creek  Nation,  reviewed  the  legion  of  General  Malcom' s 
brigade  and  Colonel  Bauman's  regiment  of  artillery.  The  President 
signified  his  full  approbation  of  their  soldierly  behavior  to  Colonel  Rut- 
gers, who  commanded  them,"  f  f  It  was  perhaps  in  honor  of  this  occa- 
sion that  the  Colonel  ordered  a  portrait  of  Washington  from  Gilbert 
Stuart,  which  hung  in  the  hall  of  the  Rutgers  house  until  1865.IJ  Colonel 
Rutgers  "  took  a  leading  and  zealous  part  in  the   politics  of  the  coun- 

*  Mrs.  Lamb's  New  York,  ii.,  112. 
'  t  For  an  account  of  the  Beekman  family  vide  Holgate's  American  Genealogy,  p.  66. 

X  Probably  Henry. 

§  A  sermun  occasioned  by  the  death  of  Colonel  Henry  Rutgers,  preached  in  the  church  in  Market  Street 
February  28,  1830,  by  William  McMurray,  O.Q.  (Rutgers  Press,  New  York,  1830).  This  sermon  gives 
considerable  information  regarding  Colonel  Rutgers'  life. 

I  See  order  of  Major-General  Pattison,  New  York  Historical  Society  Collections,  viii.,  p.  233. 

*[  Mrs.  Lamb's  New  York,  ii.,  439,  note.  **  New  York  Gazette,  October  30,  1788. 

tt  Contemporary  Journal  ;  see  Mrs.  Lamb's  New  York,  ii.,  364. 
,      XX  E.  Johnston's  Original  Portraits  of  Washington,  98,  104. 


1 886.]  The  Rutgers  Fa7nily  of  New  York.  91 

try."  *  He  was  a  Member  of  Assembly  in  1784.  In  1800  he  was  again 
nominated  by  the  Republicans.  This  campaign  was  especially  exciting, 
as  the  Legislature  was  to  choose  Presidential  electors,  and  the  result 
depended  on  the  vote  of  New  York.  A  great  effort  was  made  in  the 
city  to  defeat  the  Federalist  party,  as  the  vote  of  the  State  turned,  as 
usual,  upon  the  contest  in  the  metropolis.  Colonel  Rutgers  was  elected, 
as  were  also  George  CHnton  and  General  Horatio  Gates.  They  all 
voted  for  Republican  electors,  and  the  result  was  the  election  of  Jeffer- 
son and  Burr.  Colonel  Rutgers,  in  a  letter  written  at  Albany,  on  March 
5,  1 80 1,  gives  an  account  of  the  festivities  there  on  the  day  before  in 
honor  of  Jefferson's  inauguration.  "The  Sixth  and  Seventh  Wards,  I 
fancy,"  he  adds,  "  were  not  asleep.  It  was  often  mentioned  here  that  their 
exertions  and  success  gave  a  Republican  Presidency."  It  was  doubtless 
in  view  of  his  course  on  this  and  other  such  occasions  that  Dr.  McMurray 
says:  "  Of  the  correctness  of  his  political  principles  there  have  been  and 
will  be  different  opinions;"  but  he  goes  on  to  say  that  "his  unimpeach- 
able moral  character  and  uniform  consistency  gained  him  the  confidence 
and  respect  of  those  who  were  his  opponents,  and  procured  for  him  an 
influence  in  his  own  party  which  he  often  exerted  in  moderating  animosity 
and  suppressing  the  feelings  of  rancor."  He  was  an  Assemblyman  in  180 1, 
1802,  and  1807.  In  1811  he  assisted  in  raising  funds  for  building  the  first 
Tammany  Hall.  On  June  24,  1812,  he  presided  at  an  immense  mass 
meeting  in  the  Park,  called  for  the  purpose  of  supporting  the  war  and 
encouraging  the  construction  of  fortifications.f  He  was  a  regent  of  the 
University  of  New  York  State  from  1802  to  1826.  He  was  elected  to 
succeed  be  Witt  Clinton  as  president  of  the  Public  School  Society  in 
1828.I 

During  all  these  years  his  property  was  increasing  in  value.  He  re- 
membered the  time  when  his  father  could  stand  at  his  door  and  call  his 
men  working  on  the  farm  where  Chatham  Square  now  is,  and  he  lived  to 
see  his  private  grounds  reduced  in  size  to  the  two  blocks  bounded  by  Madi- 
son, Cherry,  Clinton,  and  JelTerson  Streets.  The  entrance  was  on  Jeffer- 
son Street.  The  rest  of  the  farm  was  rapidly  covered  with  houses,  but  the 
work  of  building  was  not  completed  until  after  his  death.  Meanwhile  his 
transactions  in  real  estate  were  very  extensive.  He  was  accustomed  to 
rent  his  lots  on  long  leases  to  tenants  who  built  their  own  houses.  Over 
four  hundred  deeds  and  leases  of  his  are  on  record  in  the  Register's  Office, 
but  they  were  not  all  given  for  a  valuable  consideration.  In  1793  he  gave 
seven  lots  to  the  Dutch  Church,  but  the  gift  lapsed,  as  the  church  was  not 
built  within  the  specified  time.  A  present  of  four  lots  to  the  Scotch  Church 
failed  for  the  same  reason.  Some  years  later  he  gave  two  lots  to  the 
Second  Baptist  Church.  In  1797  he  made  a  gift  of  five  lots  on  the  north- 
west corner  of  Henry  and  Rutgers  Streets  to  the  First  Presbyterian  Church, 
and  he  added  two  lots  at  another  time.  He  contributed  a  large  amount 
toward  building  this  church,  and  was  one  of  its  elders.  A  new  church  edi- 
fice was  erected  on  this  corner  some  forty  years  ago.  It  was  finally  sold, 
and  became  St.  Teresa's  Roman  Catholic  Church.  The  old  congregation 
moved  up-town,  and  is  now  known  as  the  Rutgers  Presbyterian  Church  of 
Madison  Avenue. §     Colonel  Rutgers  also  gave  the  ground  for  the  Market 

*  Dr.  McMiirray's  sermon,  supra.  t  Mrs.  Lamb's  New  York,  ii.,  589. 

t  Vide  Kournc's  History  of  the  Public  School  Society,  p.  109,  and  portrait  of  Col.  Rutgers  at  p.  96. 

§  Mrs.  Lamb's  New  York,  ii.,  466. 


02  The  Rutgers  Family  of  New  York.  [April, 

Street  Dutch  Church  at  the  northwest  corner  of  Market  and  Henry  Streets. 
He  made  a  large  subscription  to  the  building  fund,  and  was  an  elder  of  this 
church  from  its  organization  to  his  death.  The  building  belongs  now  to 
the  Presbyterian  Church  of  the  Sea  and  Land.  In  1806  he  presented  a  lot 
to  the  Free  School  Society  for  a  school-house,  and  an  adjourning  lot  in 
1808.*  He  was  always  much  interested  in  the  college  at  New  Brunswick, 
N.  J.,  which  was  founded  in  1770  as  Queen's  College  by  the  Dutch 
Church. 

i\.fter  the  Revolution  it  lay  dormant  until  Colonel  Rutgers  aided  in  calling 
it  to  life.  It  received  the  name  of  Rutgers  College  from  the  trustees,  "as 
a  mark  of  their  respect  for  his  character,  and  in  gratitude  for  his  numerous 
services  rendered  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church."f  Colonel  Rutgers  was 
accustomed  to  spend  one-fourth  of  his  income  in  charity.  For  many 
years  he  made  it  a  rule  to  give  a  cake  and  a  book  to  every  boy  in  the 
ward  who  would  call  on  him  on  New  Year's  Da}'.  The  children  always  col- 
lected before  the  door,  and  he  would  make  them  an  address  of  a  religious 
character.  In  18 19  he  was  a  member  of  a  committee  appointed  to  enter 
into  correspondence  with  citizens  in  various  parts  of  the  country,  with  a 
view  to  devising  some  plan  for  checking  the  spread  of  slavery.  "There 
is  scarcely  a  benevolent  object  or  humane  institution  which  he  has  not 
liberally  assisted. "J  He  relieved  the  poor  individually,  and  supported 
deserving  young  men.§  In  person  he  was  a  tall,  plain-looking  man,  with 
a  kindl)'  expression  of  face.||  He  died  in  1830,  in  the  house  in  which  he 
had  lived  nearly  eighty  years.  In  his  will  he  divided  his  "worldly  estate 
with  which  God  has  abundantly  blessed  me  "  among  his  numerous  relatives, 
but  the  largest  share,  including  his  "  mansion  house  and  all  the  land  attached 
thereto,"  he  gave  to  his  great-nephew,  William  B.  Crosby,  the  grandson 
of  his  sister,  Catherine  Bedlow.  He  had  been  left  early  an  orphan,  and 
"  Uncle  Rutgers,"  as  he  was  affectionately  known  in  the  family,  became  his 
guardian  and  virtually  adopted  him.  Colonel  Rutgers  had  always  lived 
simply,  and  in  his  will  he  directs  his  executors  to  avoid  all  ostentation  at 
his  funeral.  The  sum  thus  saved  he  leaves  to  an  infant  school.  He  gives 
a  suit  of  clothes  to  each  of  several  servants,  "but  not  a  mournmg  suit." 
It  seems  strange  to  read  in  a  will,  made  in  New  York  in  1823,  the  clause 
in  which  he  directs  that  "my  negro  Wench  slave  named  Hannah,  being 
superannuated,  be  supported  out  of  my  estate."*([  His  real  estate  at  his 
death  consisted  of  429  lots,  and  was  appraised  at  $907,949.  After  Colonel 
Rutgers'  death  Monroe  Street  was  carried  through  the  two  blocks  sur- 
rounding the  house,  and  this  block  on  Monroe  Street  was  called  Rutgers 
Place.  The  house  was  remodelled  and  its  north  side  made  its  front.  It 
stood  thus,  with  a  block  of  ground  in  lawn  and  garden  around  it,  until  after 
Mr.  Crosby's  death  in  1865.^'*  It  was  then  sold  and  torn  down.  Its  site 
is  now  occupied  by  tenement  houses. 

Colonel  Rutgers  was  almost  the  last  direct  male  representative  of  the 
family  in  New  York  City.  Since  his  death  the  name  has  entirely  disap- 
peared here  as  a  surname.     In  the  City  Directory  of  1883   it  only  occurs 

*  Mrs.  Lamb's  New  York,  ii.,  516. 

t  Centennial  of  the  Theological  Seminary  at  New  Brunswick,  pp.  113,  379. 
X  Dr.  McMurray's  Sermon  ;  see  Appleton's  Biographical  Cyclopaedia,  til.  Henry  Rutgers. 
§  Sermon,  supra. 

J  The  portrait  published  with  this  article  is  taken  from  the  original  painting,  by  Inman,  still  in  the  family. 
Duplicate  originals  are  owned  by  the  N.  V.  Historical  Society  and  Rutgers  College,  N.  J. 
1  Lib.  65  of  Wills,  p.  139,  New  York  Surrogate's  Office. 
**  Vide  picture  of  the  house  in  1858,  in  Valentine's  Manual,  1858,  p.  268. 


^y^uju^^   /j'    'JuH^i 


i886.]  Memorial  Sketch  of  Franklin  B.  Hough,  M.D.  ^^ 

in  the  "  Rutgers  Female  College,"  and  the  "  Rutgers  Fire  Insurance 
Company."  The  former  was  named  in  honor  of  Colonel  Rutgers,  at  the 
instance  of  Mr.  Crosby,  who  in  1838  gave  the  lots  in  Madison  Street  on 
which  its  original  building  stood.  The  insurance  company  was  organized 
in  1853,  and  took  the  name  on  account  of  the  situation  of  its  principal 
office  on  Chatham  Square,  near  the  old  Rutgers  farm.  Its  scrip  and  certi- 
ficates of  stock  bear  the  Colonel's  portrait.  But  while  the  family  name 
has  become  extinct  in  this  city,  the  descendants  of  the  first  Harman  Rut- 
gers, bearing  other  surnames,  who  reside  here,  may  be  numbered  by 
hundreds.  To  many  of  them  it  may  be  interesting  to  learn  something  of 
their  ancestors,  and  to  find  that  they  were  honest,  industrious,  well-to-do, 
pious  Dutchmen.  It  is  in  this  interest  only  that  the  justification  lies  for 
collecting  and  publishing  these  simple  records. 


MEMORIAL  SKETCH  OF  FRANKLIN  B.  HOUGH,  M.D.* 


By  Henry  R.  Stiles,  A.M.,  M.D. 


An  unostentatious  but  somewhat  remarkable  and  wonderfully  fruitful 
literary  career  was  closed  by  the  death,  on  June  11,  1885,  of  Franklin  B. 
Hough,  at  his  residence  in  Lowville,  Lewis  County,  N.  Y.  His  work,  for 
forty  years,  was  of  a  kind  which  did  not  much  attract  public  attention,  yet 
it  was  well  said  of  him  that  within  that  period  "no  citizen  of  this  com- 
monwealth had  done  so  much  toward  preserving  the  historical  records  and 
the  statistical  history  of  New  York."  We  who,  to  a  greater  or  less  extent, 
are  workers  and  delvers  in  the  same  fields  of  research  which  possessed  such 
fascination  for  him,  may  well  stand  appalled  as  we  survey  the  number, 
variety,  and  permanent  value  of  his  achievements  in  the  departments  of 
American  Local  and  Legal  History,  of  Biography,  and  of  Science. 

The  subject  of  our  sketch  was  born  in  Martinsburg,  Lewis  County, 
N.  Y.,  July  22,  1822.  His  father.  Dr.  Horatio  Gates  Hough  (born  at 
Meriden,  Conn.,  January  5,  1778),  a  descendant  from  William  Hough, 
who  emigrated  from  England  in  1640,  was  the  first  physician  settled  in 
Lewis  County,  to  which  he  removed  about  the  year  1799  from  Southwick, 
Mass.  His  mother  was  Martha  Pitcher,  born  at  Westfield,  Mass.,  Sep- 
tember 30,  1787,  whose  ancestors  also  came  from  England  in  1636.  Their 
children  were:  (r)  Almira,  born  in  1804;  (2)  Martha,  born  in  1807  ;  (3) 
Horatio,  born  in  1809;  (4)  Franklin  B.,  and  (5)  Dema.  Of  these,  it  is 
somewhat  noteworthy  that  three  died  within  the  space  of  five  and  a  half 
months  of  the  year  1885,  viz.:  Dr.  Franklin  B.,  on  June  nth  ;  Martha,  on 
November  20th,  and  Horatio,  on  November  26th — the  eldest  sister,  Almira, 
being  now  the  only  survivor. 

The  father  of  this  family  died  when  Franklin  was  but  eight  years  of  age, 
but  the  mother,  a  woman  of  very  energetic  character,  managed  to  keep  the 

*  In  the  compilation  of  this  sketch  we  have  been  greatly  indebted  to  memoranda  furnished  by  the  family 
of  the  deceased,  to  an  appreciative  editorial  in  the  Utica  (N.  \ .)  Morning  Herald,  of  June  12,  1S85,  and  to 
Professor  James  Cruikshanks,  of  Brooklyn,  Mr.  E.  R.  Wallace,  of  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  John  D.  Parsons,  of 
Albany,  N.  Y.,  J.  H.  Hickock  of  the  Congressional  Library,  Washington,  D.  C.,  as  well  as  others  of  r)r. 
Hough's  old  friends. 

The  portrait  here  presented,  though  not  the  latest  taken  of  him,  is  yet  one  which  well  preserves  his  feat- 
ures and  appearance  as  remembered  by  many  of  his  friends  during  the  greater  portion  of  his  active  literary 
life. 

Dr.  Hough's  baptismal  name  was  "  Benjamin  Franklin,"  but  from  the  time  he  was  eight  years  old,  he 
always  wrote  it  "  Frankhn  B."  or  "  F.  B." 


QA  Memorial  SkeLh  of  Frafiklin  B.  Hough,  M.D.  [April, 

household  together  and  to  educate  the  children.  It  is  said  of  Franklin  that 
during  his  early  childhood  he  manifested  but  little  interest  in  the  usual 
sports  and  employments  of  boys,  and  that  his  time  was  mostly  spent  among 
his  books,  and  in  making  collections  of  flowers,  minerals,  and  other  objects 
of  natural  history.  In  his  studies  he  made  rapid  progress,  and  at  the  age 
of  fourteen  entered  the  Lowville  Academy,  boarding  about  two  miles  from 
the  village,  and  walking  to  and  from  school  every  day.  The  gentleman 
with  whom  he  boarded  at  this  time  says  of  him  that  "it  was  but  a  short 
time  before  he  knew  every  stone  in  every  stone-pile  between  Lowville  and 
Martinsburg."  After  a  year  spent  at  the  Academy  he  continued  his  studies 
for  two  years  more  at  the  "  Black  River  Institute,"  at  Watertown,  Jefferson 
County,  N.  Y.,  and  September  i,  1840,  he  went  to  Schenectady  to  enter 
Union  College.  Entering  the  Sophomore  Class,  he  was  duly  graduated 
A.B.  in  1843.  During  the  three  years  of  his  college  course  he  attended 
the  spring  and  autumn  terms,  eking  out  his  expenses  by  teaching  district 
schools  at  Turin  and  Martinsburg  during  the  winters.  To  go  to  Schenec- 
tady from  his  home,  at  that  time,  was  a  several  days'  journey,  since  he  was 
obliged  to  go  by  canal  for  a  part  of  the  way,  and  ride  or  walk  (as  he  often 
did)  the  remainder.  After  graduation  from  college  he  taught  awhile  at  the 
Academy  in  Champion,  N.  Y.,  then  went  to  Ohio,  and  taught,  as  Principal, 
in  the  Gustavus  Academy  for  two  years. 

While  here  he  married  Maria  S.  Eggleston,  of  Champion,  N.  Y.,  but 
her  health  failing,  he  returned  home  for  a  short  period,  during  which  he 
manifested  the  bent  of  his  tastes  by  publishing  his  first  work,  a  "  Catalogue 
of  the  Plants  of  Lewis  County,  N.  Y,,"  issued  in  1846,  and  then  entered 
the  Medical  College  at  Cleveland,  O.,  whence  he  graduated  M.D.  in  1848. 
His  wife  dying,  he  soon  after  began  the  practice  of  his  profession  at  Somer- 
ville,  St.  Lawrence  County,  N.  Y.  Being,  however,  in  some  manner  drawn 
to  the  subject  of  local  history,  he  found  it  so  much  more  interesting  than 
the  practice  of  medicine  that  after  four  years'  experience  as  a  physician 
he  renounced  physic  in  favor  of  literature.  Removing,  in  1852,  to  Low- 
ville, he  began  his  "  History  of  St.  Lawrence  and  Franklin  Counties,  N.  Y.," 
and  while  he  ever  after,  during  his  busy  life,  kept  abreast' of  his  profession, 
and  was  always  deeply  interested  in  the  progress  of  the  Medical  Art,  his 
time  was  almost  wholly  occupied  in  literary,  historical,  and  statistical  work. 

The  list  of  Dr.  Hough's  works,  with  which  we  supplement  this  Memoir, 
and  which  is  only  approximately  complete,  serves  to  indicate,  better  than 
words  of  praise,  his  tireless  industry,  his  exhaustless  enthusiasm  in  his  chosen 
pursuits,  his  wide  information,  and  his  high  scientific  attainments.  This 
list  shows  him  also  to  have  been,  in  his  character  of  author  as  well  as  by 
birth,  pre-eminently  a  New  Yorker.  Of  his  published  works,  at  least  fifty 
are  devoted  to  the  history,  biography,  climatology,  and  statistics  of  his 
dearly-beloved  native  State. 

If  not  absolutely  the  pioneer  of  county  histories  in  our  State,  he  was 
among  the  very  first  authors  in  that  line  ;  and  though  much  and  valuable 
work  has  since  been  done,  none  of  it  has  been  more  accurate  in  its  state- 
ment of  facts,  more  complete  in  its  research,  or  more  satisfactory  in  a  lit- 
erary point  of  view  than  his.  He  began  his  statistical  work  as  the  Super- 
intendent of  the  State  Census  of  1855,  the  first  complete  census  of  New 
York  taken.  He  was  also  the  Superintendent  of  Census  in  1865,  and  was 
charged  with  the  duty  of  making  the  preparations  for  the  census  of  1875, 
under  Secretary  VVillers.  In  1861  he  originated  that  invaluable  work, 
"  The  New  York  Civil  List,"  which  was  published  for  a  number  of  years 


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under  his  supervision,  and  which  involved,  in  its  original  compilation,  an 
amount  of  labor  and  research  which  are  a|)palling.  In  1872  he  published 
"The  Gazetteer  of  New  York,"  the  last  work  of  the  kind  that  has  come 
from  the  press,  and  in  many  respects  the  most  comprehensive.  In  this 
volume  he  embodied  a  complete  record  of  the  volunteer  regiments  of  New 
York  State  in  the  War  of  the  Rebellion. 

While  engaged  in  these  works,  Dr.  Hough  was  constantly  busy  either  in 
the  annotation  of  historical  documents,  the  compilation  of  manuals,  or  the 
digestion  of  miscellaneous  historical  and  statistical  data.  We  recall,  among 
his  publications  of  this  character,  the  "  Manual  of  the  Constitutional  Con- 
vention of  1867;"  the  "Annotated  Constitution  of  New  York;"  the 
"  History  of  Nantucket  and  Martha's  Vineyard;"  "Meteorological  Obser- 
vations from  1S20  to  1854  ;"  his  "  Biographical  Dictionary,"  and  his  "  His- 
tory of  the  American  Colleges,"  designed  for  United  States  (xovernment 
publication,  materials  for  which  are  mostly  collected,  and  the  first  (of  ten) 
volume  ready  for  printing. 

During  the  latter  part  of  his  life  Dr.  Hough  became  deeply  interested 
in  the  subject  of  Forestry,  serving  in  the  capacity  of  Chief  of  the  Forestry 
Division  of  the  United  States  Bureau  of  Agriculture  for  a  number  of  years. 
In  this  capacity  he  visited  Europe  some  years  ago,  where  he  studied  care- 
fully the  methods  of  the  forestry  schools  of  Germany  and  other  countries, 
and  upon  his  return  published  a  report  which  remains  the  most  complete 
and  valuable  work  upon  Forestry,  from  the  American  stand-point,  in  the 
language.  His  minor  publications  on  this  subject  were  numerous,  and  all 
exhibit  the  trained  mind,  the  careful  observer,  and  the  conscientious  inves- 
tigator. His  experience  as  a  resident  upon  the  borders  of  the  Adirondack 
country  led  him  to  believe  that  there  was  no  necessary  antagonism  between 
the  lumber  men  and  those  who  believe  in  the  preservation  of  the  forests. 
His  constant  endeavor  was  to  develop  the  points  of  common  interest  that 
exist  between  the  two,  and  it  was  his  earnest  advocacy  of  this  view  that  led 
the  committees  of  the  Legislature  charged  with  the  subject  to  invite  Dr. 
Hough  to  Albany  during  the  winter  of  1884-85,  where  he  spent  many 
weeks  in  the  elaboration  of  the  Forestry  Bill,  which  has  since  become  a 
law.  It  was  while  engaged  in  this  work  that  he  contracted  the  pulmonic 
disease  which  cost  him  his  life.  To  him  we  are  indebted,  more,  probably," 
than  to  any  other  person,  for  the  fact  that  the  Legislature  of  our  State  has  at 
length  recognized  the  duty  of  the  State  to  protect  and  preserve  its  forests. 

But  the  crowning  work  of  Dr.  Hough's  life  was  undoubtedly  his  digest 
of  the  Legislative  history  of  the  State  of  New  York,  entitled,  "  Abstract  of 
the  Laws  of  New  York,"  1 777-1885.  This  work  is  still  in  manuscript. 
Once  the  Legislature  made  an  appropriation  for  its  publication,  and  the 
Governor  struck  it  from  the  Supply  Bill.  It  is  a  concise  summary  of  the 
legislative  action  upon  every  topic  of  public  interest  since  the  foundation 
of  the  State,  carefully  annotated  and  historically  presented.  To  the  stu- 
dent of  our  laws  and  jurisprudence  it  presents  a  mine  of  information  not 
obtainable  otherwise,  save  by  years  of  delving.  It  was  the  ambition  of 
Dr.  Hough's  life  to  see  this  work  published,  and  the  time  will  certainly 
come  when  the  State  will  realize  the  value  of  the  compilation. 

The  bare  enumeration  of  his  published  works,  however,  conveys  no  ad- 
equate idea  of  the  amount  of  mental  labor  performed  by  him,  since  the 
nature  of  his  work  was  of  a  kind  involving  the  most  painstaking  research, 
the  greatest  exactitude  of  statement,  arrangement,  and  tabulation,  and  the 
most  patient  verification  of  facts,  figures,  etc.     As  an  old  friend  remarks 


q6  Memorial  Sketch  of  Franklin  B,  Hough,  M.D.  [April, 

of  him,  "he  labored  too  hard  in  every  undertaking.     He  would  accom- 
plish much  more  work  in  a  given  time  than  any  other  man  I  ever  knew." 

Indeed,  so  keen  was  his  fidelity  to  the  exact  truth,  and  so  great  the  bulk 
of  details  with  which  he  eagerly  grappled,  that,  while  always  a  clear  and 
vigorous  writer — he  paid  little  heed  to  the  graces  of  composition.  His 
pursuit  of  facts  was  an  absorbing  passion.  His  mission  was  to  preserve 
and  verify  history — and  in  pursuing  it,  he  discounted  imagination  ;  know- 
ing that  his  work  was  of  a  character  to  be  appreciated  but  by  a  very  few, 
he  yet  loved  it  and  was  faithful  to  it  for  its  own  sake. 

During  the  War  of  the  Civil  Rebellion,  Dr.  Hough  found  ample  and 
appropriate  opportunities  for  the  practical  exercise  of  his  sanitary  and  med- 
ical skill  in  a  four  months'  service  as  an  Inspector  of  the  United  States  Sani- 
tary Commission ;  as  well  as  a  nine  months'  service  as  surgeon  of  the  97th 
New  York  Volunteer  Regiment.  He  also  served  with  ability  and  zeal  in  the 
State  Bureau  of  Military  Statistics  in  Albany,  for  a  period  of  fourteen  months. 
While  teaching  at  Champion,  N.  Y.,  in  the  earlier  part  of  his  life,  he 
frequently  lectured  in  public  on  the  subject  of  Temperance,  and  on  this 
subject,  as  well  as  Sanitary  Science,  Agriculture,  Vital  Statistics,  Climatology, 
Meteorolgy,  etc.,  he  was  ever  actively  interested  ;  his  contributions  on 
these  subjects  in  local  newspapers,  periodicals,  etc.,  amounting  to  over  a 
thousand  articles. 

He  also,  while  quite  young,  invented  and  published  a  very  ingenious 
"  Eight  Century  Calendar,"  which  can  be  used  for  any  year  from  1600  to 
2300  inclusive. 

In  business  matters  Dr.  Hough  was  straightforward,  frank,  and  honor- 
able.    In  regard  to  his  family  relations,  Mr.   E.   R.  Wallace  says  :  "  He 
was  purely  domestic  in  his  nature,  and  his  delightful  home  was  his  earthly 
Paradise.     No  man  was  ever  more  attached  to  his  family,  or  more  devoted 
to  the  comfort  and  advantage  of  each  member.    And  never  was  a  husband 
or  father  more  loved,  honored,,  and  respected  by  his  family  in  return.     His 
arrival  at  home  after  his  frequent  '  wanderings '  was  always  regarded  as  a 
most  important  event  in  the  family  circle,  counted  upon  weeks  in  advance, 
and  talked  about  for  weeks  after  his  departure.     And  yet  this  man's  love 
extended  to  all  the  human  race,  which  his  writings  sufficiently  prove.    There 
was  much  humor  in  his  nature,  and  his   dry  remarks  (not   studied)  would 
always  '  fetch  the  house.'    No  man  could  well  be  possessed  of  more  sterling 
integrity,  and  his  well-spent  life  may  justly  be  considered  as  above  reproach." 
"  Dr.  Hough,"  says  another  of  his  old  friends,  "  was  a  man  of  strong 
convictions.    He  held,  with  a  positiveness  that  was  not  easily  shaken,  views 
naturally  and  deliberately  formed  ;  and  he  had  a  right  to,  for  it  was  his 
custom  to  examine  exhaustively  subjects  to  which  he  gave  his  attention 
before  finally  pronouncing  upon  them.     Most  conscientious  he  was,  and 
unbending  in  his  notions  of  truth,  justice,  and  purity.    He  had  a  wonderful 
memory  for  incidents,  facts,  and  figures,  and  a  readiness  and  clearness  in 
presenting  them  that  commanded  the  respect  and  admiration  of  men  of 
culture,  and  yet  with  a  simplicity  and  directness  that  made  children  ready 
listeners.     A  more  indefatigable  worker  I  never  knew.     He  was  methodi- 
cal, and  what  information  he   had  digested   from   myriads  of  sources,  in 
reports,  newspapers,  public  documents,  he  could  in  his  study  lay  his  hand 
upon  in  a  moment.     In  f?.ct,  his  unpublished  manuscripts  and  notes  are 
almost  an  index,  if  not  a  concordance,  to  a  fabulous  amount  of  infor- 
mation upon  scientific  topics,  historical  knowledge  (especially  of  a  local 
character),  and  of  the  legislative  and  governmental  affairs  of  the  country. 


i886.]  Memorial  Sketch  of  Franklin  B.  Hough,  M.D,  C)j 

"  He  read  with  a  good  degree  of  facility  several  modern  languages,  but 
made  no  parade  of  his  knowledge.  In  fact,  he  never  exploited  himself ; 
and  when  an  occasion  called  him  out  (and  he  was  at  home  in  a  large  field) 
one  was  surprised  at  the  accuracy  and  scope  of  his  knowledge. 

"  His  manners  were  simple.  At  his  home  he  was  a  charming  and  royal 
host ;  and  he  had  the  rare  faculty  of  making  himself  at  home  wherever  he 
was  sure  of  loyal  friendship.  His  noble  wife  and  his  two  charming  daugh- 
ters, one  of  whom  (for  several  years  an  invalid)  followed  him  in  a  few 
weeks,  his  four  manly  sons,  and  his  choice  library  and  hospitable  man- 
sion, amid  the  spacious  maple  grove  that  he  had  planted  and  adorned,  to- 
gether with  his  own  companionship,  made  a  visit  to  him  a  joy  always  to  be 
remembered." 

His  sons,  we  understand,  are  carrying  on  works  which  he  had  in  hand, 
and  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  they  may,  in  due  time,  perfect  and  edit  some  of 
the  many  things  which  he  left  incomplete,  and  for  which  he  had  collected 
much  material. 

Dr.  Hough  was  twice  married,  (i)  July  9,  1845,  to  Maria  S.  (daughter 
of  Asa)  Eggleston,  of  Champion,  N.  Y.  She  died  June  2,  1848,  aged 
thirty-two.  He  m.  (2)  May  16,  1849,  Mariah  E.  (dau.  of  Heman)  Kilham, 
of  Turin,  Lewis  Co.,  N.  Y.,  who  still  survives  him. 

Children  by  first  marriage  : 

I.  LoRA  Maria,   married,  March  15,    1875,   Benj.  W.  Bailey,  resides 

(1886)  at  Black  River,  Jefferson  County,  N.  Y. 
Children  by  second  marriage  : 

II.  Mary  Ellen,  born  Sept.  12,  1850;  educated  at  Vassar  College  ; 

m.  Cyrus  Crofoot,  Esq.,  of  the  editorial  staff  of  the  Cleveland 
(O.)  Leader,  Oct.  27,  1875.  Mr,  Crofoot  died  in  1881,  and  she 
died  July  26,  1885. 

III.  Franklin  Horatio,  born  Aug.  18,  1854  ;  educated  at  Union 
College  and  Albany  Law  School ;  was  employed  on  the  "  History 
of  Jefferson  and  St.  Lawrence  Counties.,  N.  Y.  ;  "  is  now  (1886) 
a  patent  attorney  in  Washington,  D.  C. 

IV.  RoMEYN  Beck,  born  March  30,  1857  ;  graduated  A.  B.,  at  Cornell 
University,  1881  ;  is  at  present  engaged  in  the  preparation  of  a 
work  on  "  American  Woods,"  in  which  each  kind  of  wood  is  to 
be  illustrated  by  a  thin  transverse,  a  longitudinal,  and  an  oblique 
section  of  the  wood  itself. 

V.  Minnie  M.,  born  Jan.  20,  i860;  attended  Syracuse  University  one 

year. 

VI.  Elida  C,  born  Feb.  7,  1863;  graduated  A.  B.  at  Cornell  Univer- 
sity, 1885. 

VII.  A.  Lincoln,  born  Dqc.  28,  1865  ;  a  sophomore  at  Cornell 
University  (1886). 

VIIL  Jessie  Mariah,    UomMavi^?   1872   1  died  Jan.  6,  1873. 
IX.  Jennie  Mariah,  (  .r    3>      /  ?  [died  Jan  26,  1873. 

LIST  of   works   written    OR    EDITED    BY    FRANKLIN    B.    HOUGH. 

Historical, — i,  "  History  of  St.  Lawrence  and  Franklin  Counties, 
N.  Y.,"  1853  ;  2,  "  History  of  Jefferson  County,  N.  Y.,"  1854  ;  3,  "  His- 
tory of  Lewis  County,  N.  Y.,"  1860  ;  4,  "  History  of  Lewis  County,  N. 
Y."  (Historical  part,  4to.),  1883;  5,  "  Lowville  Academy,  Semi-centennial" 
(with  others),  1859;  6,  "History  of  Duryee's  Brigade"  (at  request  of 
officers),    1864;  7,    "New   York  Civil  List"    (originated  and  edited   for 


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eight  years),  1855-63;  8,  "Nantucket  Papers"  (from  original  records), 
1856;  9,  "  Peniaquid  Papers"  (under  appointment  of  Me.  Hist.  Soc), 
1856;  10,  "Peniaquid  in  its  Relations  to  our  Colonial  History,"  1874; 
II,  "  Easton's  Phillip's  Indian  War"  (from  original  MSS.,  with  notes  and 
much  original  matter),  1858;  12,  "Hatfield  and  Deerfield"  (papers  re- 
lating to  attack  in  1677,  from  original  records),  1859;  ^^3'  "Siege  of 
Detroit,  1763"  (from  original  records,  with  much  original  matter),  i860; 
14,  "Proceedings  of  Commissioners  of  Indian  Affairs"  (2  vols.  4to,  under 
a  resolution  of  Albany  Inst.),  1861  ;  15,  '-'Captain  Leonard  Bleeker's 
Order  Book "  (from  original,  with  notes  ;  relates  to  Sullivan's  Expedi- 
tion), 1865;  16,  "Major  Andre's  Court-Martial"  (from  orig.  and  rare 
ed.,  with  notes),  1865;  17,  "  General  Arnold's  Court  of  Inquiry,"  1780; 
the  same,  1865;  18,  "  Pouchot's  Memoirs  of  the  War  of  1755-60 
(translated  from  the  French,  with  numerous  notes  and  illlustrations  ;  2 
vols.  Royal  8vo),  1866;  19,  "  Washingtoniana "  (memorials  of  the 
death  and  funeral  of  General  Washington,  with  two  original  portraits  ;  2 
vols.,  Royal  8vo),  1865;  20,  "Bibliographical  List  of  Books  and  Pamph- 
lets Relating  to  the  death  of  General  Washington"  (in  the  above  and 
separately,  with  separate  index,  etc.),  1865;  21,  "Siege  of  Savannah," 
1779  (from  contemporary  newspapers,  etc.),  1866;  22,  "Siege  of 
Charleston,"  1780;  (the  same),  1867;  23,  "Andre's  Cow  Chase '' (his- 
torical and  annotated  edition),  1866;  24,  "Northern  Invasion  of  1780" 
(papers  relating  to  Sir  John  Johnson's  invasion  of  Schoharie  and  the 
Mohawk  Valley,  from  unpublished  originals),  1861  ;  25,  "Plan  for  Seiz- 
ing Col.  Goff,  the  Regicide  "  (from  originals  in  archives  of  New  York 
and  Connecticut),  1855;  26,  "  Proclamations  of  Thanksgiving  "  (historical 
introduction  and  text  of  all  national  and  New  York  State  proclama- 
tions from  beginning),  1858;  27,  "Gazetteer  of  New  York"  (edited 
and  wrote  most  of  edition  of  i860),  i860;  28,  "Gazetteer  of  New  York  " 
(a  similar  work  from  recent  inquiries ;  wholly  re-written),  1872  ;  29, 
"  Military  and  Camp  Hospitals,"  etc.  (translaiion  of  Bauden's  "  Medical 
History  of  the  Crimean  War;"  with  notes),  1862  ;  30,  "Historical  Sketch 
of  Union  College,"  1876  (assisted  by  Professor  Pearson.  This  was  de- 
signed as  a  specimen  of  a  series  of  college  histories  which  General  Eaton, 
Commissioner  of  Education,  designed  to  issue  as  a  government  work,  hav- 
ing reference  to  the  Centennial  year.  The  whole  would  make  ten  vols., 
8vo,  or  more,  and  the  MSS.  of  vol.  i.  is  in  hand  ready  for  printing.  The 
materials  are  mostly  collected);  31,  "  Journals  of  Major  Robert  Rogers, 
1755-60,"  1883;  32,  "American  Biographical  Notes,"  1875;  ■^■Tii  "Cen- 
tennial History  of  the  Regents  of  the  University  of  New  York,"  1885  ;  34, 
'•  Proceedings  of  Convention  of  Delegates  of  New  England  States,  in  1 780," 
etc.,  1867. 

Scientific. — i,  "Catalogue  of  the  Plants  of  Lewis  County,"  1846  ;  2, 
"  Meteorological  Observations  of  New  York  Academies,"  1825-50  (pre- 
pared under  direction  of  Regents,  and  published  by  the  State  Legislature  ; 
4to),  1855  ;  3,  "  Meteorological  Observations  of  New  York  Academies  ;  " 
second  series  1851-63  (from  original  record),  1872;  4,  "Essay  on  the 
Climate  of  New  York  "  (prepared  under  the  auspices  of  the  State  Agri- 
cultural Society),  1857;  5,  "Observations  upon  Periodical  Phenomena 
of  Animal  and  Vegetable  Life "  (prepared  under  a  contract  with  Smith- 
sonian Institution,  from  original  returns  throughout  North  America.  Pub- 
lished with  Professor  Coffin's  report  by  Congress),  1862  ;  6,  "  Report  on 
Forestry"  (prepared  for  Committee  on  Public   Lands),  1874;  7,  "  First 


i886.]  Memorial  Sketch  of  Franklin  B.  Hough,  M.D.  99 

Report  on  Forestry,"  1877  (under  a  commission  from  Congress), 
1878;  8,  "Second  Report  on  Forestry,"  1878-9  (under  a  commission 
from  Congress),  18S0  ;  9,  "Third  Report  on  Forestry,"  1880  (under 
a  commission  from  Congress),  1881  ;  10,  "Fourth  Report  on  Forestry," 
1884  (prepared  four  articles  for  it),  1885;  11,  "Elements  of  Forestry' 
(used  as  text-book  in  colleges),  1882;  12,  "Journal  of  Forestry"  (pub 
lished  at  Cincinnati;  edited  for  one  year),  1882-3.  Besides  these  worki 
he  was  the  author  of  over  forty  papers,  addresses,  or  newspaper  contribu 
tions  on  the  subject  of  American  Forestry. 

Constitutions  and   Laws. — i,    "New   York   Convention    Manual' 
(two  vols,  under  an  appointment  of  the  law  for  the  convention  of  1867-8) 
1867;    2,    "New  York  Constitution   of    1846"   (annotated   and   showin^^ 
the   comparative  provisions    of  the   constitutions   of  all   the  other  States, 
4to.     Three   editions  were  printed  in  this  volume.      Prepared  under  ap 
pointment  of  the  convention  of  1867-8),    1867;  3,  "The  Existing  Con 
stitution  of  New  York,"    1846-69.     Compared  with  the  constitutions  o 
1877  and  1 82 1,  and  with  that  prepared  in  1867-8.     Large  8vo.     Showing 
by  comparative  columns  the  four  constitutions,  (this  is  a  part  of  a  work 
nearly  completed,  but  not  printed,  upon  the  "  Constitutions  of  New  York,' 
that  would  make  a  large  8vo  volume  uniform  with  the  following),   1873 
4,  "American  Constitutions"   (2  vols.     Large  8vo.     Gives  the  history  o 
each  State  constitution,  analysis  of  the  text  of  each  and,  in  most  cases,  the 
names  of  delegates.     The  second  volume  contains  a  classification  showing 
how  the  constitutional  provisions  of  each  of  the  States  and  of  the  United 
States  resemble  or  diflfer),    1871  ;   5,  "  Constitutional  Provisions  in   regard 
to   Education.     Forming  'Circular  No.  7,  1875,  Bureau  of  Education.' " 
Historical  and  comparative  (similar  work  was  done  in   1869  for  a  con- 
gressional committee  relating  to  "  Right  of  Suffrage"  and  "The  Census"), 
1875;    6,   "Convention   of    1780;    7,  "  Abstract   of  the   Laws   of   New 
York,"  being  an  Analysis  and  classification  of  all  of  the  Laws  passed  by 
the  State  Legislature  from  the  beginning  of  a  State  Government  in  1777 
to  the  close  of  the  108th  session  in  1885,  showing  in  full  the  Title  of  every 
Act  with  the  Date  of  its  Passage  and  References  to  Places  where  each 
may  be  found  in  full ;  with  a  concise  abstract  of  the  Subject-Matter,  co- 
pious References  to  Documentary  and  other  Liformation  having  Reference 
to  these  laws,  and  Statements  of  the  Result  of  Elections,  where  they  have 
been  submitted  to  a  popular  Vote.     Also  an  Abstract  of  all  the  Statutes 
of  the  Congress  of  the  United  States,  and  of  the  Bordering  States  and  of 
Canada,  that  have  been  passed  prior  to  the  year  1885,  having  Reference  to 
the  State  of  New  York  ;  together  with  full  Reference  to  the  Decisions  of 
the  State  and  Federal  Courts,  in  which  the  meaning  of  these  Laws  has  been 
explained  or  their  Constitutionality  decided. 

(Not  yet  published,  but  nearly  ready  ;  a  Prospectus  and  advance  sheets 
appeared  last  winter.     Will  probably  make  six  large  8vo  volumes.) 

Statistics. — i,  "New  York  State  Census,"  1855;, 2,  "History  of  the 
Census  in  the  State  of  New  York,"  1866;  3,  "  New  York  State  Census," 
1865;  4,  "Census  of  New  York  City,"  1865  (under  employment  of 
the  city  authorities ;  historical,  and  illustrated  with  graphic  diagrams, 
maps,  etc.),  1866;  5,  "  Census  of  the  District  of  Columbia"  (under  con- 
tract with  the  United  States  Commissioner  of  Education,  and  chiefly  at 
expense  of  the  cities  of  Washington  and  Georgetown.  This  census  was 
taken  in  one  day,  September  11,  1867,  on  the  European  plan,  the  whole 
police  force  of  the  District  being  employed),  1867;  6,  7,  8,  "Preliminary 


lOO  Memorial  Sketch  of  Franklin  B.  Hough,  M.D.  [April, 

Reports  on  the  State  Census  of  1855,  1865,  and  1875  ;  "  9,  "Comprehen- 
sive Farm  Record,"  1875  (4to,  with  a  series  of  blanks  for  registry  for  25 
years),  i860;  10,  "American  Farm  Register  "  (similar  in  plan  but  much 
more  elaborate),  1879  ;  n,  "  Essay  on  Medical  and  Vital  Statistics  "  (prize 
essay  read  before  the  State  Medical  Society,  embracing  a  plan  of  registra- 
tion of  surgical  injuries  ;  since  adopted  in  the  army  of  the  United  States 
and  in  the  Russian  armies),  1867;  12,  "Agricultural  Statistics  of  New 
York  State,"  1867. 

Miscellaneous. — i,  "  The  Thousand  Islands  of  the  St.  Lawrence," 
descriptive,  historical,  and  legendary,  1880;  2,  "Biography  of  James  L. 
Leonard,"  1867;  3,  "Biography  of  Dr.  C.  M.  Crandall,"  1868;  4,  "Biog- 
raphy of  Dr.  WilJard;"  5,  "  Biography  of  Peter  Penet,"  1866;  6,  "Biogra- 
phy of  Te-ho-ra-gro-ne-gen,  alias  Thomas  Williams,  a  Chief  of  the  Caugh- 
nawaga  tribe  of  Indians  in  Canada."  By  Rev.  Eleazer  Williams.  Supervised 
and  published  by  F.  B.  Hough.  1859.  7,  "  Munsell's  Guide  to  Hudson 
River,"  1859.  Total  number  of  volumes,  without  "Abstract  of  the  Laws 
of  New  York,"  78. 

LLST   OF   SOCIETIES    OF   WHICH    FRANKLIN    B.    HOUGH   WAS    A   MEMBER. 

Corresponding  member  (unless  otherwise  noted)  of  the  Academy  of 
Natural  Sciences,  Philadelphia,  May  24,  1851  ;  Minnesota  Historical  So- 
ciety, August  22,  185 1  ;  Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania,  April  10, 
1854;  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Society,  1855  (actual);  Lyceum  of  Natural  His- 
tory, New  York,  February  12,  1852  ;  Historical  Society  Wisconsin,  April 
13,  1855  ;  Albany  Institute,  July  10,  1855  (resident);  Connecticut  Histori- 
cal Society,  November  7,  1855  ;  Newport  Historical  Society,  March  18, 
1857  (honorary) ;  American  Geographical  and  Statistical  Society,  October 
29,  1857;  Maryland  Historical  Society,  June  3,  1858;  American  Statistical 
Association,  October  20,  1858;  Ulster  Historical  Society,  May  10,  1859; 
New  England  Historic-Genealogical  Society,  February  i,  i860 ;  Ver- 
mont Historical  Society,  February  3,  i860  ;  New  York  Historical  Society, 
November  4,  185 1  ;  New  Haven  Colony  Historical  Society,  November  27, 
1 86 1  (honorary);  Lewis  County  Medical  Society,  December  24, 1867  (mem- 
ber); Buffalo  Historical  Society,  April  14,  1869 ;  New  York  Genealogical  and 
Biographical  Society,  June  5,  1869;  Western  Reserve  Historical  Society, 
December  10,  1870  (honorary  and  life)  ;  Maine  Historical  Society,  July 
22,  1871  ;  Rhode  Island  Historical  Society,  October  7,  1885;  Minnesota 
State  Forestry  Association,  March  24,  1876  (perpetual) ;  Oneida  Histori- 
cal Society,  June  30,  1878  (honorary);  Anthropological  Society  of  Wash- 
ington, March  26,  1879;  American  Philosophical  Society,  April  21,  1882 
(member);  Geographical  Society  of  Quebec,  December  11,  1882  (honor- 
ary); Virginia  Historical  Society,  May  14,  1882  (honorary);  New  Hamp- 
shire Historical  Society,  June  14,  1882  (honorary);  American  Association 
or  the  Advancement  of  Science  (fellow) ;  American  Forestry  Association 
member) ;  American  Forestry  Congress  (member) ;  Washington  Philosoph- 
ical Society  (member)  ;  Washington  Biological  Society  (member) ;  Trustee 
of  Lowville  Academy,  February  15,  1861;  Societe  Nationale  D' Agriculture 
de  France,  March  7,  1884  (foreign  corresponding)  ;  New  York  State 
Forestry  Association. 

Degrees. — The  degree  A.B.  was  conferred  by  Union  College  in  1843, 
and  subsequently  the  degree  A.M.  M.D.  was  conferred  by  the  Cleveland 
Medical  College  in  1848.  Ph.D.  was  conferred  by  the  Regents  of  the 
State  of  New  York. 


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llECORDS  OF    THE    REFORMED  DUTCH  CHURCH    IN   THE 
CITY  OF  NEW  YORK.— Baptisms. 

(Continued  from  Vol.  XVI.,  p.  94,  of  The  Record.) 
A*  1712.  OUDERS.  HINDERS.  GETUYGEN. 

Hendiik  Van  der  Grist, 
Johanna  Van  Hoek. 

Cornelus  Van  Hoorn, 
Marretje  Myer. 


[347] 
Jdly  6. 


OUDERS.  HINDERS. 

Justus  Bosch,  Anne-  Johannes. 

tje  Smith. 
Jan  Van  Hoorn,  Ca-  Jacobus. 

tharina  Meyer. 


la- 


id. 


27. 


Augustus  3. 


10. 


17- 


20. 


Johannes    V.    Heyn-  Sara. 

inge,    Marretje 

Files. 
George  Willes,  Anne-  Elizabeth. 

tje  Concelje. 
Jan  Van  Pelt,  Maria  Jan. 

Peryn. 
Dirk  Bensen,  Jn',  Eli-  Simson. 

zabeth  Ratleff. 
Abraham  Gouver-  Maria. 

neur,  Maria  Leys- 

ler. 
Johannes   Elzewarth,  Jores. 

Sara  Blakvvel. 
Charles  CromHne,  Jo-  Maria. 

hanna  Sincklar. 
David  Mandeviel,  Casparus. 

Marretje  V.  Goese. 
Huybert  V.  d.  Berg,  Ariaantje. 

Marytje  Lancing. 
Jan  Willex,  Margrie-  Gerret. 

tje  Douw. 
Gerret  de  Wind  el,  Johanna. 

Cornelia  Blank. 
Sjoert  Olpherts,  Do-  Olphert. 

rathe  Greenham. 
Joost   Soy,   Sara  van  I^uykas. 

Thienhove. 
Willem  Janse  Romen,  Jan. 

Annetje  Wessels. 


Abraham  de  Lanoy,  Jan- 
netje  Rome,  s:  h:  v'. 

Manfield  Tucker,  Catha- 
rina  Hardenbroek,  j.  d. 

Ihon  Clark,  Annetje  John- 
son. 

Simson  Bensen,  Rachel 
Ratleff. 

Isaac  Gouverneur,  Su- 
sanna de  Kleyn. 

Jores  Elzewarth,  Aria- 
antje, s:  h^  v"^: 

Gerret  Diiyking,  Johanna 
Hooglant. 

David  Mandeviel,  Jn^, 
Jannetje,  s:  h^  v"^. 

Willem  Jacobze,  Rachel 
Lemountes. 

Barent  de  Kleyn,  Cor- 
nelia V.  Varik. 

Jan  Canon,  Marrytje  Le- 
graw. 

Jan  Rosevelt  &  Heyltje, 
syn  h^  v'. 

Cornelus  Van  Thienhove, 
Elizabeth  Anient. 

Jan  Will:  Romen,  Maria 
Files. 


Vicktoor  Blocker,  Eva  Pieternella.    Harmen     Bensing,     Pie- 


Ten  Yk. 
Hendrik  Myer,  Wyn-  Hendrikus. 

tje  Rhee. 
Johannes     Provoost,  Margreta. 

Sara  Baly. 
Anthony  Rutgers,  Maria. 

Hendrikje  Van  de 

Water. 
Samtiel  Provoost,  Ma-  Maria. 

ria  Sprath. 
Nicolaas    Mathysen,  Nicolaas. 

Maria  Lakeman. 
Cornelus  Biinsen,  Neeltje. 

Lena  Cokiver. 


ternelle  de  Wit. 

Dirk  de  Grgof,  Ariaantje, 
s:  h^  v'. 

Isaac  Verplank,  Margrie- 
tje  Henion. 

Harmanus  Rutgers,  Mary- 
tje Singelaar. 

David    Provoost,    Sen'., 

Cornelia  Sprath. 
Joseph  Berrye  &  Lea,  s: 

h'  v^ 
Richard    Care,    Jannetje 

Cokever. 


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24. 


27. 


31- 


Septemb.  5. 


7- 


14. 


17- 
24. 

28. 


[349] 
Septemb. 


John    Brouwn,  Anna 

Van  Oorden. 
Fredrik  Willemse, 

Marytje  Waldroni. 
Jacob  Coning,  Claasje 

Corneliis. 
Wynant  Van  t'  Zant, 

Catharina  Ten  Yk. 
Johan  Anderson,  Ju- 
dith Janse. 
Merinis  Roelofse, 

Dina  Idesse. 
Gerret   Van    Hoorn, 

Elsje  Provoost. 
Schiboleth  Bogardiis, 

Anna  Garmo. 
Abraham  W  e  n  d  a  1 1 , 

Catharina  de  Kay. 
W  i  1  ]  e  m     Brouwer, 

Marytje  Van  Oort. 
Cornelus  Jooste,  Ca- 
tharina de  Hart. 
Cornelus  Clopper, 

Jn'.,  Catharina 

Grevenraad. 
John  Mew,  Elizabeth 

V.  DeCirse. 
Johannes  de  Foreest, 

Catharina  R  a  v  e  - 

steyn. 
Johannes    Poiiwelse, 

Elizabeth  V.  d. 

Water. 
Philip  Daly,  Cornelia 

Van  Gelder. 
Benjamin    Wynkoop, 

Femnietje  Van  der 

HeuU 
J  o  z  e  p  h    Robinson, 

Maria  de  Kleyn. 
Anthony  Ham,  Eliza- 
beth Myer. 
Jan    Smith,   J  ii  d  i  t  h 

Outman. 
Johannes  Koiiwen- 

hove,  Rachel  Ben- 
sen.  ' 


KINDERS. 

GETUYGEN. 

Maria. 

Willem    Brouwer,     Elsje 

Witten. 

P^edrik. 

Jacob      Blom,     Annatje 

Hyer. 

Aaltje. 

Jan     Jansen,      Elizabeth 

Lam,  Jn^ 

Elizabeth. 

Jacobus  Krankheyt,  Sara 

V.  Vorst. 

Maria. 

Ruth     Wouters,    Styntje 

Jans. 

Hendrik. 

Anthony    Byvank,    Mar- 

re  tje  V.  den  Berg. 

Margreta. 

Cornelus  Van  Hoorn, Ze'., 

Margreta  Van  Brdgh. 

Jacob. 

Pieter  Garmo,  Anna  Kip. 

Jacobtis. 

Jacobus      Bayard,      Sara 

Wendall. 

Lucretia. 

John     Brouwn,     Helena 

de  Kay, 

Gysbert. 

Pieter  Van  Velse,  Antje 

de  Hart. 

Johannes. 

Patrick  Macknight,  Anna 

Greveraad. 

Jacobus. 

Gerret  &  Saartje  Burger. 

Jacobus. 

Rip  Van   Dam,  Annetje 

Myer. 

Albartus. 

Elizabeth 
Johannes. 

Richard. 

Cornelia. 

Femma. 

Samuel. 


28.   Dirck   Koek,  Siisan-  Elizabeth, 
na  Grigier. 


Dirk  Bensen,  Jn'.,  Pieter- 
nelle  V.  d.  Water. 

Nathan  Daly,  Elizabeth 
Marschalk. 

Johannes&  Cornelia  Wyn- 
koop. 

Leonard  de  Kleyn,  Eliza- 

"beth  Lippenar. 
Pieter     Myer,    Cornelia 

Timmer. 
Benjamin  de  Harrietton, 

Jannetje  Smith. 
Dirk    Bensen,    Catharina 

Boke,  s.  h.  v'. 


Nicola  as    Thienhove, 
Marretje,  s:  buys  v'. 


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Octob: 


15- 


22. 


26. 


Nov:  2. 
[350] 


OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

Poul    Miller,    Anna  Pieter. 
Van  der  Heyden. 

C  o  r  n  e  1  u  s    Loiiwe,  Elizabeth. 

Margrietje  V.  Bor- 

siini. 
Pieter  Gardinias,  Me-  Catharina, 

tje  Van  Tilbtirg. 
Jan  Stoutenburg,  Maria. 

Henrica  Duyking. 
Pieter  Clement,  An-  Jannetje. 

netje  Ruyten. 
Pieter  Anient,  Eliza-  Lucas. 

bet  V.  Tienhove. 


Johannes   Bant,  VVil 

lemyntje  Philips. 
Baltus  de  Hart,  Mar- 

gareta  Moiiritz. 
Pieter  Van  Dyk,  Ra- 
chel Leroux. 
Abrahani  Van  Gelder, 

Catlyntje  Post. 
Harmen    Bussing, 

Sara  Selover. 
Robberd  Bossie,  Ca- 
tharina Dirx. 
Johannes  Kertbyl, 

Margreta    Pro- 

voost. 
Johannes   Van    Nor- 

den,     Hendrikje 

Ten  Yk. 
Jan  Van    der    Meer, 

Elizabeth  Hoist. 
Robberd    C  a  m  m  e  1 , 

Elizabeth  Burch. 
D°"    Gualtherus    Dii 

Bois,   Helena  Van 

Baal. 
Jan    Hyer,    Jannetje 

Stymets. 
Barent    Reynders, 

Hester  Leyslaar, 
Barent   de    Freest, 

Catlyntje  Sarley. 


Thomas. 

Margrietje. 

Rachel. 

Jacobus. 

Anna. 

Abraham. 

Johannes. 

Annetje. 

Albartus. 

John. 

Elizabeth. 

Vrouwtje. 

Jacob. 

Hendrikus. 


Hendrik  V.  d.  Heul,  Hendrikus. 

Marretje  Myer. 
Josyas  Ocdon,  Catha-  Maria. 

rina  V.  d'  Poel. 


GETUYGEN. 

Schiboleth  Bogardiis,  Ja- 
cobus Veevos,  Cornelia 
Van  der  Heyden. 

Jacobus  Moene,  Diever- 
tje  Bos. 

Jacob  de  Gardemo,  Cor- 
nelia Van  der  Heyden. 

Tobias  &  Antje  Stouten- 
burg, 

Mangel  Janse,  Antje,  s: 
h:  v'. 

Cornebis  V.  Tienhove, 
Marretje,  h.  v.  v.  Nico- 
laas  Tienhove. 

Willem  &  Hendrikje 
White. 

Mathys  de  Hart,  Jan- 
netje Mouritz. 

Bartholomeus  Leroux, 
Urseltje  Van  Dyk. 

Johannes  V.  Gelder,  Aegje 
V.  Gelder. 

Gerret  Hassing,  Eliza- 
beth Burger. 

Hendrik  Buys,  Annetje 
Montague. 

David  Provoost  Jonath. 
Z.,  Catharina  Bensen, 

Theofiliis  Pels,  Annatje 
Hooglant. 

Joh.  V.  d'  Poel,  Albartus 
Hoist,  Marytje  Hibon. 

Burger  Sippe,  Margrietje 
Johnson. 

Isaac  de  Peyster  &  Isaac 
dti  Bois,  Olevier  Teller 

&  Sophia  Teller. 

Willem  Hyer,  Annatje 
Blom. 

Octave  Coenraatz,  Ca- 
tharina Walters. 

Gerret  de  Foreest,  Ma- 
ria Magdalena  Appel. 

Harmanus  Rtitgers,  Ca- 
tharina Myer,  s:  h.  v'. 

Jacobus       )  „ 

Marytje  [^'■^^°°^t- 


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A°  1712. 


5- 
16. 

19. 

23- 
so- 


lo. 


OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

Elbert  Aartse,  Anne-  Evert. 

tje  Ten  Yk. 
Willeni  Bogert,  Hille-  Susanna. 

gont  Joris. 
Lovvies  Boulje,  Anne-  Catharina. 

tje  Coning. 
Johannes    R  o  m  m  e ,  Annetje. 

Antje  Pels. 
Thomas  Slow,  Eliza-  Elizabeth. 

beth  Wessels. 

Gerret  Hyer,  Saartje  Gerret. 

Bosch. 
Jan  Cramer,  Engeltje  Gooswyn. 

Davids. 
CharelBeekman,  Ytje  Johannes. 

Van  t'  Zant. 


Jacob  Bennet,  Neel-  Hendrikus. 
tje  Beekman. 
Decemb.  5.      Jan  Pieterse,  Antje  Jan. 
Montagne. 


[351] 
Decemb. 
14. 

17- 


Cornelus  Rapalje,  Jo- 
hanna Anthonidus. 

BarentdeKleyn,  Cor- 
nelia V.  Varik. 

Hans  Kiersted&, 
Maria  Van  Vleck. 

David  Cosaar,  Styn- 
tje  Joris. 

Nathan  Daly,  Saar- 
tje Hiiysman. 

Gerret  Van  Laar, 
Jannetje  Streddels. 

Johannes  Myer,  Sara 
de  Foreest. 

Willem  Echt..Obyt., 
Marretje  V.  Dyk. 

VVolfert  Webber, 
Grietje  Stille. 

Abraham  V.  Vleck, 
Maria  Kip. 


Jeronimus. 

Leonard. 

Rachel. 

Neeltje. 

Charell. 

Jannetje. 

Vrouwtje. 

Willemyn- 

tje. 
Aaltje. 

Isaac. 


Loiirens   Barentse,  Helena. 

Hester  Jans. 
Petriis  Kip,  Immetje  Johannes. 

Van  Dyk. 
Victoor    Hyer,    Jan-  Catharina. 

netje  Van  Gelder. 


GETUYGEN. 

Jeams  Waters,  Wyntje 
Ten  Yk. 

Joort  Lynen,  Aefje  Vre- 
lant. 

Joort  Lynen  &  Elizabeth, 
s:  hs  V. 

Cornelus  Romme,  Tryn- 
tje  Aalsteyn. 
.  Henrikus  Coerte,  Petrus  , 
de   Riemer,  Aaltje  de. 
Riemer. 

Jan  Hyer,  Annetje  Har- 
denbroek. 

Sjoert  Olfertse,  Dorathe 
Greenham. 

Pieter  Bosch,  Wynant 
Van  t'  Zant,  Sasanna 
Bosch. 

Willem  Bennet,  Jn'.,  An- 
netje Beekman. 

Jan  de  Lamontagne,  Pie- 
tronella  de  Lamon- 
tagne. 

Jeronimus  Rapalje,  Titje 
Anthonidus. 

Leonard  de  Kleyn,  Saar- 
tje V.  Varik. 

Abraham  Van  Vlek,  Ma- 
ria Kierstede. 

Frans  Goelet,  Neeltje 
Onkelbag. 

Jan  ) 

Antje  \ 

Christoffel  )  Harden- 
Femmetje  j       broek. 

Ide  Myer,  Marretje  My- 
er, alias  Van  der  Grist. 

Jacobus  &  Saratje  Van 
Dyk. 

Jacob  Coning,  Dievertje 
Kwakenbos. 

Jacobus  Kip,  Catlyna  de 
Lanoy  . .  Abrate  Kip 
&  Catharina  Kip,  Wed" 
van  Joh:  Kip. 

Gysbert  &  Catharina 
Janse. 

John  Crugo,  Rachel  Van 
Dyk. 

Harmanus  &  Theuntje 
Van  Gelder. 


Pouwelse. 


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A"  1712. 
28 

A°  1713- 
January  i. 


II. 

14. 

18. 

21. 

25- 


February  11. 

15- 
January  28. 


OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

Thomas  Robberds,  Elizabeth. 
Geesje  Lieiiwes. 

Hans  Bergen,  Rachel  Michiel. 

Bensen. 
Johannes  Brestede,  Elizabeth. 

Rebecca  Onkelbag. 
Jacob  Ten  Yk,  Neel-  Jacob. 

tje  Hardenberg. 
Adolf  de  Groof,  Ra-  Aegje. 

chel  Goederus. 
Pieter  Steel,  Chibilla  Petrfis. 

Margreta  Schryver. 
Ediiard  Blagg,  Johan-  Johannes. 

na  Vickers. 
Enoch  MichielseVre-  Helena. 

lant,   Aegje  Van 

Hoorn. 
Benjamin  Oldes,  Aal-  Jannetje. 

tje  Schars. 
Harme   Van    Hoese,  Volckert. 

Geesje  Heermans. 
Jan    Van    B  u  y  r  e  n  ,  Pieter, 

Maria  Myer,  Maria. 

Willem  Waldrom,  Jo-  Willem. 

hanna  Nagels. 
Jurian  Witvelt,  Mary-  Maria. 

tje  Ten  Yk. 
Enoch  Vrelant,  Ma-  Cornelus. 

ria  Van  Hoorn. 
Willem    Sjeckerly,  Johannes. 

Debora  Van  Dyk. 
Fredrik  Boog,  Johan-  Johanna. 

na  Van  Hoek. 
Samuel  Richerson,  Maria. 

Elizabeth  Bedlo. 
MichielVaughton,Ca-  Michiel. 

tharina  Donnelson. 
Samuel  Philipz.  Aal-  Caleb,  \  5 

tje  Dame.  Josua.  [- 1 

I 


[352]  Albartus     Coenradus  Maria. 

February  15.       Bosch,  Maria  Jeeds. 
18.  David     Mandeviel,  Antje. 

Jannetje  AVoerten- 
dyk. 
John   Waldron,  Cor-  Cierardus. 
nelia  Hardenberg. 


GETUYGEN, 

Leonard  &  Elizabeth 
Lieuwis. 

Dirk  Bensen,  Jannetje 
Koxman,  s.  h.  v. 

Gerret  Onkelbag,  Antje 
Brestede. 

Abraham  Ten  Yk,  Ra- 
chel Grant. 

Cornelus  Louw,  Agnietje 
de  Groof. 

Dirk  Schryver,  Ida  Bries. 

Johannes  V.  Hartsberge, 
Catharina  Walters. 

Pieter  Myer,  Styntje  Co- 
saar. 

Frans  &  Aaltje  Van  D)>k. 

Cornellis  Louw,  Maria 
Lancing. 

Anthony  Han,  Elizabeth 
Myer,  s:  h:  v^,  Pieter 
Myer,  Christina  Jans. 

Jan  Nagel,  Anna  Catha- 
rina Berk. 

Johannes  Ten  Yk,  Pie- 
ter nella  de  Wit. 

Adolph  Philipz,  Gerret 
Van  Hoorn,  Kleck. 

Philippiis  Schuyler,  Mar- 
greta Harding. 

Salomon     ]    ■,    -r, 
-r  ,  h  de  Boog. 

Johanna )  ° 

Samuel  Staats,  Catharina 
Bedlo,  s:  h:  v: 

Leonard  de  Kleyn,  Su- 
sanna Lysiaar,  s.  h.  v'. 

Mangel 
Antje 

Rem  RemseV:d'Beek, 
Marta  Remse  V:  d"^ 
Beek. 

Casparus 
Jannetje 

Cornelus  Jacobse  Woer- 
tendyk,  Marretje  Man- 
deviel. 

Andries  Ten  Yk,  Neeltje 
Hardenberg. 


Rol, 


Bosch. 


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A°   17 13.  OUDERS. 

2  2,  Albartus  Hoist,  Aal- 

tje  Provoost. 
Gerret  de  Graw,  Do- 
rathe  Hyer. 
Meert  8.  Johannes  Doiiw,  Sara 

de  Foreest. 
Isaac    Verplank, 
Amonarentia    Pro- 
voost. 
Claass  Bogert,  Grietje 

Concelje. 
Abraham  Van  Hoorn, 
Maria  Provoost. 
15.  Abraham     Russel, 

Maria  Faster. 
Richard  Magdnell, 

Cornelia  Varik. 
Philippus    Van    Bor- 
siim,   Margrietje 
Willems. 
18.  Olivier   Teller,    Cor- 

nelia de  Peister. 
22  Hendrik    Vonk,    Ca- 

t  h  ar  in  a  Hege- 
man. 
Abraham   de   Lanoy, 
Jannetje  Rome. 
25.  Burger  Sippe,   Mary- 

tje  Hibon. 
29.  Lourens  Kimny,  Ca- 

tharina  Davids. 


Johannes  V.  Harts- 
berge,  Catharina 
Walters. 

Nicolaas   Rosevelt, 
Jn'.,  Sara  Voile- 
man. 
April  I.  Benjamin    V.   Vegte, 

Jannetje  Eckeson. 

Jacob  Franse,  Antje 
Haal. 
5.  Evert  Van  Wagener, 

Hill  ego  nd     V. 
Heyninge. 

Frans  Reyerse,  Jan- 
netje Dye. 

Richard  Rhee,  Elsje 
Sanders. 


Tiirck. 


KINDERS.  GETUYGEN. 

Hilletje,  Gerret    Provoost,    Ama- 

rentia  Ver  Plank. 
Johannes.       Victoor    Hyer,    Jannetje 

s:  h^  v'. 
Catharina.      Willem  Appel,  Catlyntje 

Cerley. 
Isaac.  Johannes  Provoost,  Mar- 

retje  Maries. 

Margrietje.     Elbert   Harmese,  Catha- 
rina Bogert. 

Abraham.       Johannes        )  Van 

Margareta  j       Brugh. 

Johannes.       Pouwlus 

Marretje 

Catharina.      Jan  Van  Varik,  Saartje, 
s:  h=  v^ 

Jan.  Fredrik  Willemse,   Eliza- 

beth Montagne. 

Margareta.     Isaac  de  Peister,  Sophia 

Teller. 
Cornelfts.        Auke  Van   Engele,  Yda 

Vonk,  s:  h^  v'. 

Cornelia.        Jan  Willemse  Rome,  Ma- 
ria, s:  h^  v''. 
Geertriiy.        Johannes   Hibon,   Maria 

Narbury. 
Cornelus,  ge-  Sjoert    Olphertse,   Dora- 
boren   Au-      the  Greenham. 
gust  30: 
1 712. 
Johannes.       Isaac     Labadie,     Catha- 
rina Walters,  Se'. 

Hilletje.  Nicolaas      )  Rosevelt, 

Hilletje  \      Sen^ 

Jan.  Theunis  V.  Vegte,  Apa- 

lony  Eckeson. 

Barber.  A  b  r  a  m    &    Susanna 

Franse. 

Nicolaas.        Barent«Si  Dievertje  Bosch. 


Joris.  Gerret  &  Saartje  Burger. 

Roberd.  Pieter  •  Bosch,     Annetje 

Hardenbroek. 


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A*  171: 
[353] 


19. 
12. 

19. 


26.     • 
29. 

May  6. 

TO. 

17. 

24. 


Juny  5. 

7- 


10. 


OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

H  e  n  d  r  i  k  Van  den  Anna  Maria. 

Burg,   Maria  Mag- 

dalena  Knight. 
Jan  Uiifoe,  Catharina  Roelof, 

Roelofs. 
Denys  Relje,  Janne-  Magdalena. 

tje  Derowae. 

Stephanas  Bo e ken-  Stephanus. 

hove,  Anna  Hoist. 
Philip   Witvelt,   Jan-  Justus. 

netje. 
^  I  s  a  a  c    Gouverneiir,  Nicolaas. 

Sara  Staats. 
Pieter  Bant,   Martha  Marretje. 

White. 
Robberd  Kemmel,  Maria. 

Elizabeth  Bortz. 
Alexander     F  e  n  i  x ,  Jacobus. 

Margrietje   Cam- 

fert. 
Jacobus  Bayard,  Jacobus. 

Hill  ego nd  de 

Kay. 
Samuel    S  h  a  h  a  a  n  ,  Belitje. 

Neeltje  Cosyn. 
Abraham     Provoost,  Abraham. 

Jannetje  Myer. 
Jan  Van  Vore,  Judith  Johannes. 

Slot. 
Willem    Mathiks,    Su-  Josua. 

sanna  Badjor. 
Pieter  Seyn,  Annetje  Johannes. 

Steynebag. 

John  Johnson,  Eliza-  Gabriel. 

beth  Lam. 
Cornelus   Post,    Cat-  Maria. 

lyntje  Patman. 
Jacob    Schuumans,  Sophia. 

Annetje  Jeffers. 
Jan  Potiwelse,  Antje'Margreta. 

Huysman. 
Lliykas  Stoiitenburg,  Tobias. 

Sara  Beating. 
Jaemes   Lae,  Justina  Justina. 

Witvelt. 
Jacobus  Quick,  Maria  Catlynlje. 

Smith. 
Egbert  Van   Bossenji^Hendrik. 

Elizabeth  Bensen. 


GETUYGEN. 

Pieter  Jacobze,  Rebecka 
Jans. 

Anthony  Rutgers,  Catha- 
rina Rutgers  Wed^ 

Hendrik  Van  den  Burg, 
Maria  Magdalena,  s:  h: 
v: 

Johannes  Symense,  Hen- 
drikje  V.  Hoek. 

George  Brewenton,  Ca- 
tharina Blank. 

Samuel  Staats,  Maria 
Gouverneur. 

Barent  Cornelusse,  Eliza- 
beth Bant. 

Burger  Sippe,  Francyntje 
Clement. 

Jacob  Fenix,  Catharina 
Kamfert. 

Atigustus  G6da  [ie  Jay], 

Anna  Maria  Beyard,  s. 

h.  V. 
Aarnoiit  Hendriks,  Geer- 

tje  Claase,  s:  h^  v'': 
Harm  an  lis    Rutgers,    Ca- 
tharina Myers,  s:  h:  v'. 
Willem     Elsevvarth,    Pie- 

ternella,  s.  h.  v'. 
Coenraat  Ten  Yk,   Dina 

Michielse. 
Joh:  Hoorn,  Philip  Sjeere, 

Elsje    Mouling,    An: 

Mary  Antony. 
Benjamin    Eldredge,   Eli- 
zabeth Coning. 
Lodewyk  Post,  Catlyntje 

Van  Gelder. 
Denys  Doohage,  Rachel, 

s.  h.  v. 
Jacob  &  Antje  Van 

Noorstrant. 
Tobias  Stouten  burg, 

Tryntje  V.  Rollegom. 
J  ti  r  i  a  n   Witvelt,   Maria 

Ten  Yk. 
Jan     Rosevelt,     Heyltje 

Smith. 
Samson  Bensen,  Marretje 

Bongran. 


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A°  1713. 

[354] 
jTlly  I. 


15- 
19. 


22, 
26. 

August  2. 
9- 

16. 


26. 
30. 


OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

Rykard  Bdrke,  Anna  Maria,  ge- 

Maria  Bosch.  boren27 

Juny. 
Patrik   Magknight,  Margreta. 

Anna  Cloppers. 
Jan  Hibon,  S^',,  Ca-  Aaltje. 

tharina  Sebring. 
H  e  n  d  r  i  k  Brevoort,  Elias. 

Jacomyntje  Boke. 
Frans    Pieterse,    Ra-  Antje. 

chel  Eckeson. 
Theophilus  Pels,  Eli-  Daniel 

zabeth  Blaiivelt.  Catlyntje. 


GETUYGEN. 


Pieter  Luykasse, 
Marytje  Willems. 

Anthony  B  y  v  a  n  k , 
Theuntje  Laning. 

Johannes  A  a  r  t  s  e  , 
Marytje  Marshel, 

Johannes  Oostrander, 
Elizabeth  V.  den 
Berg. 

Sacharia  Hut  sings, 
Styntje  Segers. 

H  e  n  d  r  i  k  Meyer, 
Wyntje  Rhee. 

Jeames  Waters,  Ma- 
rytje Aartse. 

William  Glover,  Mar- 
grietje  Blom. 

Pieter  Chaigneau, 

Aaltje  Smith. 
Jan   Canon,   Marytje 

Legran. 
Lodewyk  Ackerman, 

Hillegond  Bosch. 
Casparus  B  1  a  n  c  k , 

Agnietje  Post. 
William  Brouwer, 

Neeltje  Thomas. 
Hendrik  Kermer,  Ja- 
comyntje   Rave- 

steyn. 
J  o  z  e  p  h    Houwerd, 

Christina  de  Mill. 
Jacobus   Provoost, 

Marytje  V.  der 

Poel. 


Gerret  Van  Hoorn,  Antje 

Smith,  b.  V.  v.  Justus 

Bosch. 
Cornelus    Clopper,    Jn^, 

Pieternella  V.  de  Water. 
Cornelus  }  r.  ,    ■ 

Aaltje  \  S^^""g- 
Jacobus  &  Tanneke  Boke. 

Jan   Van    Aarnem,    Ap- 

lony  Eckeson. 
Johannes  Graaf,  Catlyn- 
tje de   Foreest,   Evert 
Pels,    Ariaantje    Else- 
warth. 

Salomon.        Frans  Abramse,     )  t 
Annetje  Frans.  \  | 

Anthony.  Harmanus  V.  G  e  1  d  e  r , 
Teuntje  Ides,  s.  h.  v. 

Catharina.  Johannes  Van  D{ierse, 
Marretje  Aartse. 

Petrus.  Willem    Brouwer,    Maria 

Lancing. 

Elizabeth.  Seger  Gerretse,  Jannetje 
Gerrets. 

Hendrikus.  Abraham  Lefferts,  An- 
natje  Hooglant. 

Herculus.  Elbert  Aartse,  Marretje 
Harcks. 

William.  John  LieWis  &  Joort 
Lynse,  Annetje  Blom, 
h.  V.  v.  John  Liewis. 

Johanna.  Justes  Bosch,  Annatje 
V.  de  Boog. 

Sara.  ^Ilsaac   Gouverneiir,   Sara 

Staats,  s.  h^  v^ 

Albartus.  Gidius  Lj^nse,  Anna  Ma- 
ria Bosch. 

Isaac.  Isaac  Blank,  Lidia  Lootz. 

William.  Jan  Schoiite,  Maria 
Schoute  Wed^ 

Annatje.  Gerret  Ravesteyn,  Mary- 
tje Rollegom. 

Hester.  Anthony   de    Mill,    Sara 

de  Mill. 
Jacob.  .  Isaac    Gouverneiir,    Sara 

Staats,  s:  h^  v^ 


[886.]  Notes  and  Queries. 


NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 


109 


Proceedings  of  the  Society. — At  the  regular  meeting  held  January  22d,  Presi- 
dent Wilson  in  the  chair,  the  Executive  Committee,  through  its  chairman,  Dr.  Ellsworth 
Eliot,  recommended  for  election  to  resident  membership  Dr.  Edward  F.  S.  Arnold  and 
Mr.  Elbridge  T.  Gerry.  On  motion  these  gentlemen  were  unanimously  elected.  The 
resignation  of  Mr.  J.  Harsen  Purdy  was  presented  by  the  Treasurer  and  accepted  by  the 
Society.  After  remarks  by  Dr.  Holcombe,  there  being  no  other  business,  the  Society 
adjourned. 

At  the  regiilar  meeting  held  February  12,  1886,  President  Wilson  in  the  chair  the 
Executive  Committee,  through  its  chairman,  recommended  as  a  building  committee  the 
following  named  gentlemen  :  Mr.  Cornelius  Vanderbilt,  Hon.  Wm.  Waldorf  Astor  Hon. 
Theodore  Roosevelt,  Mr.  Edmund  Abdy  Harvey,  Mr.  John  V.  L.  Pruyn,  and  Mr. 
Amory  S.  Carhart.  An  address  was  delivered  by  the  president,  after  which  a  paper,  en- 
titled "The  Prime  Family  in  America,"  and  a  short  sketch  of  the  Rev.  Samuel  Iren:eus 
Prime,  D.  D.,  was  read  by  Mr.  Edward  Irenceus  Stimson,  followed  by  a  vote  of  thanks 
and  brief  addresses  from  Mr.  Charles  B.  Moore,  Mr.  Edward  F.  De  Lancey  and  the 
Hon.  Charles  A.  .Peabody. 

At  the  regular  meeting  held  February  26th,  President  Wilson  in  the  chair,  the  Ex- 
ecutive Committee,  through  Dr.  Eliot,  chairman,  recommended  for  resident  membership 
Rev.  Morgan  Dix,  D.D.,  Mr.  Clarence  W.  Bowen,  Mr.  Russell  Sage,  Judge  Richard  L. 
Larremore,  and  for  corresponding  members  Hon.  Geo.  W.  Schuyler,  of  Ithaca,  and  Tudae 
E.  H.  Durell,  of  Schoharie,  N.  Y.  ^ 

At  the  regular  meeting  held  March  12,  1886,  President  Wilson  in  the  chair,  the  Libra- 
rian read  a  list  of  donations,  including  several  important  and  valuable  works.  The 
Executive  Committee,  through  Dr.  Eliot,  chairman,  approved  the  nominations  of  Pro- 
fessor Theodore  W.  Dwight  and  General  John  Meredith  Reed,  and  the  President  pro- 
posed as  a  corresponding  member  the  name  of  Dr.  Hermann  Keussen,  Jr. ,  of  Cologne 
Germany.  They  were  unanimously  elected.  Dr.  Henry  R.  Stiles  read  a  memorial 
sketch  of  Franklin  B.  Hough,  the  well-known  author,  who  was  a  corresponding  member 
of  the  Society.  Dr.  Ellsworth  Eliot  announced  the  death  of  S.  Oakley  Vanderpoel  a 
resident  member  of  the  Society,  who  died  in  Washington,  D.  C,  Friday  morning  March 
I2th,  aged  sixty-two.  Dr.  Vanderpoel  was  born  at  Kinderhook,  Columbia  County 
N.  Y.,  February  12,  1824.  His  ancestors  settled  in  that  part  of  the  State  early  in  the 
seventeenth  century.     The  meeting  then  adjourned. 

MoTT  Family  of  New  York. — The  founder  of  this  family,  who  married  Jane  Hu- 
let  at  the  old  Dutch  Church,  New  York,  July,  1647,  was  from  Essex  County,  England. 
The  Motts  of  Essex  County,  England,  were  an  ancient  family  of  prominence.  John 
Mott  owned  estates  at  Shalford,  1375.  Members  of  the  family  owned  manors  or  estates 
at  Barningham,  Bocking,  Braintree,  and  Shalford,  but  Shearne  Hall  was  for  a  long  time 
the  seat  of  the  main  branch.  In  Herald's  Visitation  of  Essex,  1634  (Harlem  Soc.  vol. 
xiii.),  the  arms,  crest,  and  pedigree  are  given  of  Mark  Mott,  gent.  He  was  son  of 
Thomas  Mott,  gent,  who  was  buried  March  5,  1554.  The  names  John,  Mark,  and 
Adrian  are  the  most  common  names  handed  down  in  main  line.  Burke's  "  Landed  Gentry  " 
(vols,  ii.,  iii.,  iv.,  and  v.),  gives  pedigrees  of  Motts,  as  also  does  Morant's  "  History  of 
Essex"  (vol.  ii).  The  arms  of  the  Motts  are  thus  described  :  "  Sable,  a  crescent,  argent." 
Crest  :  "  An  estoille  of  eight  points,  argent."  By  estoille  is  meant  a  star,  and  a  fine 
representation  of  this  crest — an  eight-pointed  star  surmounting  an  ornamented  crown  is 
given  in  Fairbank's  work  on  *'  Crests  and  Arms  of  Nobility  and  Gentry.  '  The  motto  of 
the  family  (given  in  Latin),  signified  "speed,  strength,  and  truth  united."  The  name 
Mott  is  of  French  origin,  and  was  probably  originally  La  Mott,  which  was  a  well  known 
local  name  in  Normandy,  from  whence  came  the  Conqueror.  The  first  of  the  Mott  familv 
was  probably  among  the  followers  of  William,  and  in  the  course  of  a  century  or  so  this 
name  La  Mott,  or  De  la  Motte,  became  "naturalized  "  (as  Lowe  terms  it)  to  Mott. 

American  Historical  Association. — The  next  Annual  Meeting  of  the  American 
Historical  Association  will  be  held  in  Washington,  D.  C,  April  2Sth  and  29th.  Among 
other  addresses,  there  will  be  one  by  the  venerable  President,  George  Bancroft,  and  an- 
other on  Columbus,  by  General  Wilson.  The  only  Honorary  Member  of  the  Associa- 
tion is  the  venerable  Professor  Leopold  Von  Ranke,  who,  in  his  ninety-first  year,  con- 
tinues literary  labors,  with  the  single  exception  of  Chaplain-General  Gleig,  and  who' is  his 
senior  by  several  months,  the  oldest  of  living  writers.  Von  Ranke's  election  was 
recently  communicated  to  him  from  Washington,  in  the  following  beautiful  letter  :    "  My 


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Venerable  Master  atid  Dear  and  Most  Highly  Honored  Friend :  We  have  had  many 
historical  societies  in  our  several  States.  We  have  lately  founded  the  American  His- 
torical Association,  which  is  to  devote  itself  to  the  affairs  of  the  United  States  of 
America.  We  wish  for  your  benediction ;  and  for  that  end  we  ask  you,  and,  as  yet, 
you  alone,  to  accept  the  proof  of  our  reverence  by  consenting  to  become  our  honor- 
ary member.  We  have  meant  to  make  this  a  special  homage  to  yourself  as  the  greatest 
living  historian.  I  add  my  personal  request  to  the  request  of  the  society  that  you  will 
o-ive  us  this  mark  of  your  regard.  We  thank  Heaven  that  you  approach  your  ninetieth 
year  in  the  enjoyment  of  health.  May  you  long  continue  to  enjoy  the  ever-increasing 
proofs  of  the  honor  and  affection  in  wiiich  you  are  held  by  your  fellow-men.  Ever  your 
very  affectionate  and  devoted  scholar  and  friend,  George  Bancroft." 

A  Chinese  Vanderbilt. — The  richest  man  in  the  kingdom  of  China,  and,  perhaps, 
the  richest  in  the  wide  world,  has  passed  away  during  the  present  year.  The  Pa/l  Mall 
Gazette  says:  "  The  Vanderbilt  of  China  has  just  died  and  been  buried.  Not  much  is 
known  in  Europe  of  his  life  ;  less  of  his  death;  but  his  burial  is  reported  to  have  been 
most  picturesque.  His  palace  of  Hang  Chou  was  a  miracle  of  luxury,  and  in  creating 
this  banker  a  provincial  judge,  and  specially  authorizing  him  to  wear  a  yellow  jacket,  the 
Emperor  of  China  made  him  the  envy  of  all  his  other  subjects.  But  the  glory  of  his 
funeral  seems  to  have  surpassed  the  splendor  of  his  life.  The  whole  city  turned  out  to 
see  the  procession.  Nothing  in  Europe  could  parallel  it.  First  came  a  mob  of  coolies 
weighted  down  with  leaflets,  on  which  were  written  moral  sentences  and  apothegms. 
Then  followed  a  procession  of  lantern-bearers,  supported  by  a  band  of  musicians  with 
gongs,  cymbals,  and  trumpets.  It  is  hard  to  conceive  anything  less  funereal.  A  liun- 
dred  little  boys  came  after  the  band  (this  was  the  only  item  in  sympathy  with  Western 
experience)  brandishing  the  arms  (heraldic)  of  the  diseased  ;  the  boys  were  followed  by 
the  bearers  of  his  portrait.  Groups  of  guests  next  came  in  procession,  some  in  white, 
some  in  scarlet,  some  in  yellow  ;  then  bearers  of  lamps,  banners,  parasols,  and  fans  ; 
next  the  master  of  the  ceremonies,  in  white  robes,  on  a  white  horse,  preceding  an  enor- 
mous tent,  under  which  the  relatives  of  the  deceased  moved  entirely  hidden  from  public 
view,  and  last  the  coffin,  borne  on  the  shoulders  of  twenty-four  men." 

Sears  and  Smith. 

Pascal  Nelson  Smith,  m Hester  Sears, 

Thomas  Hamilton,      m.  June  15,  1778,         Mary  Sears, 
Sarah  Halstead,  m.  October  24,  1 780,  John  Sears, 

Pereyrine  Bourdieu,    m.  June  21,  1785,         Maria  Sears ; 
all  at  Trinity  Church,  N.  Y. 

Hester  Sears  was  a  daughter,  and  Mary,  John,  and  Maria  Sears  were  probably  chil- 
dren of  Isaac  and  Sarah  (Drake)  Sears,  of  New  York. 

Isaac  Sears,  born  about  1770,  was  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.,  from 
Boston,  in  1779  ;  and  his  brother,  Jasper  Sears,  born  about  1772,  was  entered  at  the  same 
time.     Isaac  Sears  died  in  Washington,  D.  C,  in  February,  1795.     Hester  (Sears)  Smith 

is   mentioned  in  Griswold's  "Republican   Court."     A  daughter  married Bryan,  a 

lawyer  of  New  York.     Had  issue  ? 

Information  is  desired  relative  to  either  of  the  above  and  their  families,  and  the 
address  of  any  descendant  of  either  will  greatly  oblige    Samuel  P.  May,  Newton,  Mass. 

Drummond. — In  the  January  number  of  The  Record  there  is  given  a  notice  of 
Robert  and  Anne  Drummond,  of  New  York.  There  was  also  a  Robert  Drummond  who 
settled  in  Monmouth  County,  N.  J.,  previous  to  1700.  His  will  was  dated  February  6, 
1700,  and  proved  September  8,  1710.  He  was  of  old  Freehold  Township,  and  his  will 
names  father  James  Drummond,  merchant,  of  Prestonpans,  Scotland  ;  brother  John, 
uncle  Gawin,  sister  Grissell,  cousins  Gawin,  Robert,  John,  and  Isabella  Drummond, 
sons  and  daughters  of  uncle  Gawin  Drummond.  The  latter  was  appointed  executor.  In 
speaking  of  his  father,  he  says  :  "  Item.— I  give  and  bequeath  to  my  loving  father,  James 
Drummond,  merchant,  of  Prestonpans,  in  Scotland,  the  sum  of  thirty  pounds  in  silver 
money,"  etc.  From  this  it  would  seem  that  the  Monmouth  Robert  Drummond  came 
from  Prestonpans.  I  have  found  no  mention  of  the  cousin  Robert  in  Monmouth 
records  of  deeds,  wills,  or  court  proceedings.  Could  he  have  been  the  Robert  Drum- 
mond of  New  York? — Edwin  Salter,  Washington,  D.  C. 

DUYCKINCK. — I  have  for  some  time  been  r.t  work  on  the  descendants  of  Evert  Duyck- 
ing  and  Hendrickji  Simons,  and  have  arrived  at  the  following  conclusions:  Evert  and 
Gerardus  were  brothers— the  latter  being  mentioned  in  connection  with  supplying  or 


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making  the  coats  of  arms  on  glass  and  placed  in  the  windows  of  the  old  Dutch  Church  in 
Garden  Street ;  must  have  come  to  New  York  with  his  wife  and  their  son  Evert.  Evert 
the  younger  married  Cornelia  Jacobs  in  1680.  Of  them  I  can  find  no  further  trace. 
Evert,  son  of  Evert  and  Hendrickji  Simons,  married  Cornelia  Toll,  and  died  about  or  be- 
fore 1680.  Their  son  Evert,  who  married  Elsie  Meyer  (1704),  was  mentioned  in  Robert 
Sinclair's  will  as  his  wife's  cousin  Evert^  in  connection  with  her  brother  Gerrit,  and 
their  sisters  Belitji  and  Sijtie,  and  the  children  of  Aeltie  (who  died  about  1682).  The 
Evert  who  married  Aeltie  Hardenbroeck  was  eldest  son  of  Evert  and  Elsie  Meyer  who 
settled  at  Raritan  Landing,  N.  J.  Am  I  correct  in  the  above  conclusions  ? — W.  G.  DuY- 
CKiNCK.     P.  O.  Box  3796,  New  York. 

Schuyler. — In  the  Record  for  1882,  No.  4,  vol.  xiii.,  p.  157,  under  (60)  David 
Pruyn,  it  is  stated  that  David  Pieterse  Schuyler,  and  his  brother  Philip,  were  sons  of 
Pieter  Schuyler,  or  Schuylert,  who  was  born  in  Cologne,  in  Germany,  but  who  settled  in 
Amsterdam,  marrying  there,  before  1639,  probably,  Catharina  Buyck,  daughter  of  Cors 
Jansen  Buyck.  In  the  Record  for  July,  1884,  vol.  xv.,  p.  140,  I  state  that,  while  my 
papers  do  not  prove  the  parentage,  I  myself  have  no  doubt  of  it.  I  wish  here  to  state 
that  it  is  possible  I  may  be  wrong  in  my  belief,  as  Mr.  George  W.  Schuyler,  in  "Colonial 
New  York,"  vol.  i.,  pp.  99-100,  would  seem  to  think.  The  whole  question  will  bear 
investigation,  and  I  hope  that  someone  directly  interested  in  the  Schuyler  family  will  look 
further  into  the  matter.  J.  v.  l.  p. 

Columbus  Statue. — Among  the  subscribers  of  one  hundred  dollars  each  to  the 
statue  of  Columbus,  to  be  erected  in  the  Central  Park,  are  Mr.  John  Jacob  Astor,  Gen. 
Jas.  Grant  Wilson,  Mr.  George  W.  Childs,  Gen.  John  Meredith  Read,  Mr.  D.  Willis 
James,  and  Gen.  Egbert  L.  Viele,  M.  C.  Subscriptions  of  not  less  than  one  dollar  will 
be  received  by  the  Treasurer  of  the  New  York  Genealogical  and  Biographical  Society, 
Dr.  George  H.  Butler,  64  Madison  Ave.nue,  New  York.  The  July  number  of 
the  Record  will  contain  a  complete  list  of  subscribers  to  the  statue. 

Family  Memorials. — A  series  of  genealogical  and  biographical  monographs  on  the 
prominent  families  of  the  City  and  State  of  New  York,  illustrated  with  steel  portraits, 
will  appear  regularly  hereafter  in  The  Record,  and  will  include  the  Astor,  Beekman, 
Clarkson,  De  Lancey,  Hamilton,  Morris,  Jay,  Pierrepont,  Provoost,  Schermerhorn, 
Schuyler,  Stuyvesant,  Van  Rensselaer,  Verplanck,  Wadsworth,  and  Winthrop  families. 
The  Bayard,  Pruyn,  and  other  family  memorials  have  already  appeared  in  the  previous 
volumes  of  The  Record. 

An  Ancient  Journal. — The  Edinburgh  Courant^  the  oldest  newspaper  in  Scot- 
land, and  the  most  respectable  organ  of  Toryism  in  that  northern  kingdom,  is  dead. 
Founded  in  1705,  it  could  boast  of  having  for  one  of  its  editors  the  greatest  journalist  of 
the  eighteenth  century,  or  for  that  matter  of  any  century,  Daniel  Defoe.  Among  its 
eminent  contributors  of  the  present  century  were  Sir  Walter  Scott,  Washington  Irving, 
and  Professor  John  Wilson.  J-  G.  w. 

Election  of  Officers. — At  the  last  annual  election  of  the  New  England  Historic- 
Genealogical  Society,  the  venerable  Marshall  P.  Wilder,  now  in  his  eighty-eighth  year, 
was  re-elected  president,  being  the  nineteenth  time  he  has  been  so  honored.  The  Rev. 
Edmund  F.  Slafter  was  re-elected  corresponding  secretary  ;  David  Greene  Haskins,  Jr., 
recording  secretary;  Benjamin  B.  Torrey,  treasurer  ;  and  John  Ward  Dean,  librarian. 

Careless  Printers. — In  explanation  of  the  variation  in  the  color  of  the  paper  used 
in  the  January  number  of  the  Record,  to  which  objections  have  very  properly  been 
made,  the  Publication  Committee  desire  to  say  that  it  was  entirely  owing  to  the  inexcus- 
able carelessness  of  the  printers.  Subscribers  may  be  assured  that  no  repetition  of  such 
blundering  will  be  permitted  to  occur  again. 

Continental  Soldiers. — Information  wanted  concerning  Captain  Charles  Par- 
sons, First  Regiment ;  Sergeant  Richard  Davis,  Second  Regiment  ;  Private  Benjamin 
Epton,  Second  Regiment ;  Captain  Jonathan  Titus,  Fourth  Regiment ;  Matross  William 
Gurtley,  Regiment  Artillery,  New  York  Continentals.  Davis  and  Titus  were  from 
Suffolk  County;  Gurtley  was  from  Boston.  F.  e.  h. 

Longevity. — An  authentic  and  most  remarkable  instance  of  longevity  is  that  of 
Mrs.  R.  B.  Bodman,  of  Jefferson  County,  in  this  State,  who,  on  Washington's  birthday, 
Tuesday,  February  22d,  celebrated  the  completion  of  her  one  hundred  and  third  year. 
She  is  a  descendant  of  Henry  Burt,  the  first  of  his  race  in  the  new  world,  who  settled  at 
Springfield,  Mass.,  in  1640. 


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No  Ancestors. — The  Duke  of  Somerset,  surnamed  the  Proud  Duke,  and  of  whom 
it  is  related  that  he  drove  all  through  Europe  without  ever  leaning  back  in  his  carriat^e, 
used  to  say,  "  that  he  pitied  Adam  because  he  had  no  Ancestors." 

CoNANT-CoRSON. — Genealogies  of  these  families  are  now  in  preparation  by  Fred. 
Odell  Conant,  of  Portland,  Me.,  and  Julia  H.  Corson,  No.  21  Ray  Street,  Manchester, 
N.  H.     Information  and  subscriptions  are  solicited. 

HooGLAND. — The  undersigned  has  in  progress  a  genealogy  of  the  Hoogland  family, 
and  would  be  glad  to  receive  communications  or  memoranda  relating  thereto. — Daniel 
Hoogland  Carpenter,  70  Clarkson  Street,  New  York  City. 

BoARDMAN. — The  Rev.  S.  W.  Boardman,  of  Stanhope,  N.  J.,  is  collecting  mate- 
rial for  a  genealogy  of  his  family,  and  solicits  correspondence  on  the  subject. 


NOTES    ON    BOOKS. 

Records  of  the  Descendants  of  Nathaniel  Ely,  the  Emigrant,  who  settled  first 
in  Newtown,  now  Cambridge,  Mass.  ;  was  one  of  the  first  Settlers  of  Hartford,  also 
of  Norwalk,  Conn.,  and  a  Resident  of  Springfield,  Mass.,  from  1659  until  his  death 
in  1675.  Compiled  by  Heman  Ely,  including  material  collected  by  Mrs.  Amanda 
(Ely)  Terry.     Cleveland,©.:  Short  &  Forman.     1885.    4to,  pp.  x.,  515.     Portraits. 

Truly,  American  genealogists  have  fallen  upon  "golden  days."  No  longer  misunder- 
stood and  misrepresented  as  to  the  nature  of  their  work  ;  no  longer  almost  furtively  issuing 
their  scanty  little  pamphlets  of  family  records;  no  longer  apologizing  for  what  must 
appear,  outside  of  their  own  little  circle,  a  waste  of  time  and  labor — they  find  themselves 
respected  as  the  devotees  of  an  acknowledged  science ;  their  productions  are  "privately 
printed  "  in  all  the  elegance  (and  even  sumptuousness)  of  modern  typographic  art ;  and 
their  subscription  lists,  and  a  wide-spreading  circle  of  imitators,  prove  that  genealogy  is 
accorded,  at  last,  in  American  Society,  its  rightful  place  as  a  valuable  and  honorable 
study.  This  thought  comes  to  us  frequently  nowadays  as  we  turn  the  pages  of  the  many 
splendid  works  of  this  class  which  are  constantly  being  issued,  and  of  which  the  Ely 
volume  is  the  latest,  and  by  no  means  the  least  in  elegance  and  in  value.  'We  have  had 
occasion  to  examine  it  with  a  purpose,  and  Hterally  page  by  page,  and  we  have  found  it 
to  be  an  eminently  satisfactory  piece  of  genealogical  work.  Its  system  of  notation  and 
arrangement  is  perfectly  clear  and  simple  ;  its  personal  and  biographical  detail  thoroughly 
yet  modestly  presented;  and  from  title-page  to  colophon  the  volume  is  pervaded  with  a 
delightful  sense  of  pride,  without  pretence,  in  the  records  of  an  honorable  ancestry.* 
Typographically,  the  volume  is  a  gem  in  all  that  goes  toward  the  making  of  a  book,  and 
our  Eastern  printers  must  look  to  their  laurels  if  such  books  can  be  issued  from  Western 
establishments.  The  edition  is  limited  to  520  copies,  and  the  volume  is  illustrated  with 
twenty  portraits,  fifteen  of  which  are  phototypes  and  the  rest  on  steel — all  of  a  high 
decree  of  excellence.  Three  full  indexes  afford  all  needed  facilities  for  reference,  and  the 
following  families  (especially)  will  find  themselves  largely  represented  in  the  volume,  viz.  : 
Banister^  Brewer,  Champion,  Chapin,  Day,  Dill,  Hubbard,  Miller,  Taylor,  White, 
IVright,  Wood.  Price,  in  cloth,  $7  ;  in  half  morocco,  $8,  exclusive  of  express  charges  or 
postage.     Address  Heman  Ely,  Elyria,  O.  H.  R.  s. 

Dictionary  of  National  Biography.      Edited  by  Leslie  Stephen.     Vols.   1-5, 
Abbadie-Bottisham.    New  York:  Macmillan  &  Co.  ;  London:  Smith,  Elder  &  Co., 
I 885-1 886.     8vo. 
This  promises  to  be  a  most  valuable  addition  to  our  stock  of  biographical  references. 
It  is,  of  course,  eminently  British  in  its  scope,  but  none  the  less  valuable  for  that  to  the 
American  student  and  scholar.     Each  article  is  signed  with  the  initials  of  its  author,  and 
the  biographies  are  not  only  most  carefully  compiled,  but  written  with  a  degree  of  elegance 
which  is  somewhat  unusual  in  works  of  this  class.     The  authorities  referred  to  in  each 
biography  are  fully  presented  at  the  close  of  the  article,  and  evidently  no  pains  have  been 
spared  to  make  it  the  standard  national  biographical  "  Court  of  Appeal" — and  it  com- 
pares, in  all  points  of  literary  execution,  with  its  foreign  models,  the  German  and  Belgian 
Biographical   Dictionaries.      Its  fulness,  accuracy,  and  thoroughness,  together  with  the 
elegant  typographical  form  in  which  it  is  issued,  will  make  it,  without  doubt,  a  general 
favorite.     The  price  per  volume  of  about  450  pages  each  (five  being  already  issued)  is 


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$3.25,  and  it  will  be  completed  in  about  fifty  volumes,  published  at  the  rate  of  a  volume 
every  three  months — thus  bringing  it  easily  within  reach  of  even  those  who,  though  of 
limited  means,  are  detertnified  to  surround  themselves  with  the  best  of  good  books.  Many 
a  man  spends  upon  newspapers  and  literary  trash  more  than  enough  to  make  him  the  pos- 
sessor of  this  work,  which  is  a  library  in  itself,  and  would  be  a  heritage  of  value  to  his 
children.  The  editor  of  this  noble  work  is  perhaps  as  well  equipped  for  the  very  impor- 
tant undertaking  as  any  of  his  English  contemporaries.  He  has  done  much  good  literary 
Work  that  will  live,  including  his  recently  published  life  of  his  friend,  Henry  Fawcett,  the 
blind  Postmaster-General  and  Member  of  Parliament.  We  take  pleasure  in  adding  that 
the  first  volume  of  a  similar  work,  devoted  exclusively  to  American  Biography,  edited  by 
the  President  of  the  Genealogical  and  Biographical  Society,  will  appear  from  the  press  of 
the  Appletons  early  in  the  autumn.  H.  R.  s. 

Memoir  of  Rt.  Rev.  James  Hervey  Otey,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  The  First  Bishop  of 
Tennessee.  By  Rt.  Rev.  William  Mercer  Green,  D.D.,  Bishop  of  Missis- 
sippi.     I  vol.  8vo,  pp.  359.     New  York:   James  Pott  &  Co.      1885. 

This  loving  and  affectionate  memoir  of  a  noble  frontier  Bishop  is  from  the  pen  of  a 
venerable  man  now  in  his  eighty-eighth  year,  who  is  the  presiding  Bishop  of  the  Ameri- 
can Episcopal  Church.  The  Oteys  were  Virginians,  and  the  Bishop,  on  both  sides  of  his 
family,  came  of  good  old  English  stock.  He  was  baptized  by  his  biographer,  and  soon 
after  confirmed  by  Bishop  Ravenscroft,  of  North  Carolina.  In  1S25  he  received  the 
diaconate,  and  two  years  later  the  office  of  priest,  at  the  hands  of  the  same  eminent 
Bishop.  He  then  went  to  Tennessee,  of  which  diocese  he  was  consecrated  Bishop  in 
1833.  He  also  did  much  good  work  in  Alabama,  Mississippi,  and  Louisiana,  and  through- 
out the  Southwest  was  known  as  the  "  Good  Bishop."  Though  strongly  opposed  to  se- 
cession, Otey  was  persuaded  to  write  his  famous  letter  to  Secretary  Seward  remonstrat- 
ing against  coercive  measures  on  the  part  of  the  Federal  Government.  The  able  reply 
to  this  communication  changed  the  Bishop's  views,  who  thenceforth  became  an  advocate 
for  the  Union.  The  writer  had  the  pleasure  of  making  the  acquaintance  of  Otey  at  the 
General  Convention  of  1859,  and  of  renewing  it  in  the  winter  of  1862-63  while  in  com- 
mand of  his  cavalry  regiment  and  stationed  at  Memphis.  It  was  also  his  privilege  to  be 
of  some  service  to  the  "  Good  Bishop"  during  his  last  months  of  sickness,  and  to  see 
him  laid  in  his  long  home.  He  died  in  his  sixty-fourth  year,  and  it  was  believed  of 
a  broken  heart.  Bishop  Green  has  pictured  his  friend  fairly  :  "  Honest  and  generous, 
true  to  his  great  trust,  grand  in  intellect  but  childlike  in  disposition,  tender  in  heart  but 
fearless  in  action,  just  to  all  men,  and  a  faithful  servant  of  God." 

The  small  portrait  is  unsatisfactory,  but  a  more  serious  blemish  in  this  otherwise  at- 
tractive volume,  is  the  absence  of  an  index.  j.  G.  w. 

Genealogical  Memoranda. — Snively,  a.d.  1659 — a.d.  1882.  Compiled  and  Ar- 
ranged by  (Rev.)  William  Andrew  Snively  (S.T.D.),  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  Printed  for 
Private  Circulation.  Small  4to,  77  pages. 
Under  this  modest  title,  and  in  a  typographical  setting  of  elegant  simplicity,  Dr. 
Snively  has  preserved  the  records  of  the  descendants  of  JoHANN  Jacob  Schnebele,  who 
was  born  in  Switzerland  in  1659,  came  to  America  in  1714,  to  escape  religious  persecu- 
tion, and  settled  in  Lancaster  County,  Penn.  The  original  orthography  of  the  name 
Schnebele  was  changed,  in  the  third  generation,  to  Snaively,  Suavely,  and  Suaivele ; 
being  spelled  Schnebly  in  Maryland,  also  as  Scfmabel.  The  genealogy  does  not  assume 
to  be  an  exhaustive  one,  and  is  entirely  lacking  in  biographical  detail ;  yet  it  evinces  much 
labor,  and  a  conscientious  desire  to  secure  accuracy  of  fact.  So  far  as  it  goes,  it  is  well 
done.  The  author  gives  exclusive  credit  for  the  record  of  the  first  three  generations  to 
Joseph  Snively,  "whose  publication  of  a  Genealogical  Register,  about  twenty  years  ago, 
saved  many  of  the  older  data  from  oblivion,  and  suggested  the  present  efTort  to  bring  the 
Family  Record  down  to  a  more  recent  date."  H.  R.  s. 

Marlborough.  By  George  Saintsbury.  No.  2,  English  Worthies.  Edited  by  An- 
drew Lang,  i  vol.  i8mo.  New  York:  D.  Appleton  &  Co.  1886. 
This  second  volume  of  the  English  Worthies  Series  is  an  improvement  on  the  first.  It 
supplies  a  long-felt  want  of  a  kind  that  Southey  supplied  when  he  wrote  his  popular  life 
of  Lord  Nelson.  In  this  judicious  memoir  of  the  hero  of  Blenheim  and  Malplaquet, 
Saintsbury  successfully  refutes  many  of  the  serious  charges  brought  against  him  by  the 
brilliant  Macaulay  and  other  writers,  showing  that  Marlborough,  while  by  no  means  a  per- 
fect character,  was  far  from  being  the  reprobate  that  he  has  been  represented.  It  is  a 
model  miniature  memoir.  J.  G.  w. 


J  j^  Donations  to  the  Library.  [April, 

The   Wilderness  Road.     A  Description  of  the  Routes  of  Travel  by  which  the  Pio- 
neers and  Early  Settlers  first  came  to  Kentucky.     By  Thomas  Speed.     Louisville: 
Printed  for  the  Tilson  Club.      1886. 
This  handsome  quarto  is  the  second  of  the  series  issued  by  the  Tilson  Club,  a  Ken- 
tucky organization  which  is  doing  a  creditable  work  in  rescuing  from  oblivion  valuable 
material  pertaining  to  the  history  of  that  State.    A  few  copies  are  offered  for  sale  by  John 
P.  Morton  &  Co.,  of  Louisville,  printers  to  the  club.  j.  g.  w. 

The  Forum.     Vol.  i..  No.  i,  March,  1886.     Edited  by  Lorettus  S.  Metcalf.     New 
York  :  The  Forum  Publishing  Co. 
This  new  candidate  for  popular  favor  is,  perhaps,  the  best  first  number  of  any  Amer- 
ican periodical  that  has  fallen  under  our  notice.     It  appears  to  be  a  rival  to  the  North 
American  Review,  but  there  is  an  ample  field  for  both  monthlies.  j.  g.  w. 


OTHER   DONATIONS   TO   THE   LIBRARY. 

From  Robert  Clark  &  Co.     The  Marshall  Family.     By  W.  M.  Paxton.     8vo,     Cin- 
cinnati, 1885. 
"      New  Jersey  Historical  Society.     New  Jersey  Archives,  First  Series,  Vol. 

ix. ,  1757-1767.     Edited  by  Frederick  W.  Ricord  and  William  Nelson.     8vo. 

Newark.  N.  J.,  1885. 
'«      A.   A.   Vorsterman  Van   Oyen.     Algemein  Nederlandsch  Familieblad.     4to. 

Hague,  1885. 
"      The  Vestry,  per  G.  E.  Manigault,  M.D. ,  Chairman  of  the  Vestry.     Annals 

and  Registers  of  St.  Thomas  and  St.  Denis  Parish,  South  Carolina.     By  Robert 

F.  Clute,  Rector.     8vo.     Charleston,  1884. 
«'      John  A.  Weekes,     Genealogy  of  the  Family  of  George  Weeks,  of  Dorchester, 

Mass.,  1 635- 1 650.     By  Robert  D.  Weekes.     8vo.     Newark,  1885. 
"      W.  C.  Sharpe.     History  of  Oxford,  Conn.     Part  I.,  Church  Records,  Births, 

Marriages,  and  Deaths,  etc.     By  W.  C.  Sharpe.     8vo.     Seymour,  Conn.,  1885. 
'*      Wm.  H.  Lee.     Lee  Family  Gathering,  August  5  and  6,  1884.     By  Wm.  Wallace 

Lee.     8vo.     Meriden,  Conn.,  1885. 
"      Gen.  Jas.  Grant  Wilson.     Eight  Journals  of  Conventions  of  the  Episcopal 

Church,  Diocese  of  New  York,    1879-1885.     8vo.     New  York.     Memoir  of 

Brigadier-General  Anthony  Walton  White,  of  the  Continental  Army.    By  Anna 

M.  W.  Woodhull.     8vo.      1882.     Fifty-sixth  Annual  Report  of  the  Cincinnati 

Schools,  for  the  year  ending  August  31,  1885.     8vo.     Cincinnati,  1885. 
"      H.  A.  Homes.     Report  of  the  Commissioners  on  the  Correct  Arms  of  the  State 

of  New  York.      With  Appendix  :  Letter  of  H.  A.  Homes  to  the  Commissioners. 

8vo.     Albany,  1881.     Second  Paper  on  the  Correct  Arms  of  the  State  of  New 

York,  as  Established  by  Law  since  March  16,  1778.     By  Henry  A.   Homes, 

LL.D.     Svo.     Albany,  1882. 
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the  Proceedings  of  the  Society  for  1885.     Svo.      Philadelphia,  1886. 
"      Lieut.  A.  D.  Schenck,  U.  S.  A.     Register  of  the  Army  of  the  United  States 

for  January,  1885.     8vo. 
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Nos.  3  and  4,  1885.     Svo.     Washington,  1885.     Report  of  the  Commissioner  of 

Education,  1883-84.     Svo.     Washington,  1885. 
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i2mo.     Albany,  N.  Y.,  1877. 
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Utica,  N.  Y.,  i88i.     Svo.     Utica,  N.  Y.,  1881. 
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1886. 
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"  Hon.  Wm.  M.  Evarts.  Descriptive  Catalogue  of  Government  Publications, 
1774-1881.      Compiled  by  Ben  P.  Poore.     410.      Washington,  1885. 

"  Henry  R.  Stiles,  M.D.  History  of  Suffolk  County,  N.  Y.  410.  New  York, 
1882.  The  Civil,  Political,  Professional  and  Ecclesiastical  History  and  Com- 
mercial and  Industrial  Record  of  the  County  of  Kings,  and  the  City  of  Brook- 
lyn, N.  Y.,  from  1683  to  18S4.  By  Henry  R.  Stiles,  A.M.,  M.D.,  Editor-in- 
chief,  assisted  by  Mr.  L.  B.  Proctor,  and  L.  P.  Brockett,  M.D.  With  Biog- 
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Washington,  1S77. 


OBITUARY. 

I^ING. Mr.    William    Henry    King   died   at   his   residence,    Yonker?,    Westchester 

County,  N.  Y.,  on  Saturday,  November  28,  1885.  He  was  a  descendant  of  Mr.  Will- 
iam' Kinge,  of'Salem,  Mass.  (Ante,  vol.  xiv.,  p.  50),  in  the  line  of  SamueP  ;  Samuel", 
jr.  •  Ensign  John'* ;  John-\  jr.  ;  Rufus"  ;  Rufus  Sylvester',  all  of  whom  were  residents  of 
the'town  of  Southold,  Suffolk  County,  N.  Y.,  where  they  were  prosperous  land  owners, 
and  upright  and  useful  members  of  the  community. 

Mr.  William  H.  King's  mother  was  Phoebe,  daughter  of  the  Hon.  Abraham  Odell, 
of  Greenburgh,  Westchester  County,  N.  Y.,  whose  wife  was  Anne,  daughter  of  Cornelius 
Mandeville,  Esq.,  of  Peekskill,  N.  Y.  Mr.  Odell  was  a  representative  of  Westchester 
County  in  the  New  York  State  Assembly  for  nine  years,  1801-5  and  1807-10.  He  was 
a  brother  of  Colonel  John  Odell,  whose  descent  from  Mr.  William  Odell,  of  Concord, 
Mass.,  has  already  been  given  (Ante,  p.  58). 

Mr.  William  H.  King  received  a  careful  business  training  with  the  well-known  firm  of 
Newbold  &  Cruft,  merchants,  of  New  York  City.  In  1859  he  became  a  junior  partner  in 
the  firm  of  Prosper  P.  Shaw  &  Co.  The  same  year  he  married  Mary  Renshaw,  daughter 
of  Sylvester  T.  Kellogg,  Esq.,  of  Yonkers,  N.  Y.  In  i860  Mr.  King  was  engaged  in 
business  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Shaw,  Degraw  &  King.  His  health  failing  soon  af- 
ter, he  retired  from  active  pursuits,  and  removed  to  Yonkers,  where  he  resided  until  the 
time  of  his  death.  His  interest  in  the  prosperity  of  that  place  was  great,  and  he  was  not 
inactive  in  endeavoring  to  be  useful  in  many  ways.  He  was  for  several  years  President  of 
the  Palisade  Boat  Club,  an  officer  of  the  Yonkers  Lyceum,  and  manager  of  Saint  John's 
Hospital.  Special  meetings  of  those  institutions  were  held  at  the  time  of  Mr.  King's 
death,  and  resolutions  were  published  in  the  local  papers*  testifying  to  the  loss  they  had 
sustained.  Mr.  King,  in  his  church  connection,  was  an  Episcopalian.  Funeral  services 
were  held  at  St.  Paul's  Church,  Yonkers,  on  Tuesday,  December  ist,  and  the  interment 
was  in  the  family  vault  in  St.  John's  Cemetery,  in  that  place.  Mr.  King's  wife  survives 
him,  together  with  an  only  child,  Mary  Louisa;  he  also  leaves  a  brother,  Rufus  King,  and 
a  sister,  Sarah  A.,  widow  of  Samuel  Shaw,  Esq.,  all  residing  at  Yonkers,  N.  Y. 

Mr.  King  had  greatly  endeared  himself  to  his  many  friends  by  his  unifonn  courtesy 
and  readiness  to  be  of  service  whenever  it  lay  in  his  power,  and  his  death  has  caused  a 
sorrow  as  widespread  as  it  is  heartfelt.  K. 

Leveridge.  —  John  Leveridge,  the  oldest  lawyer  in  this  city,  and  probably  our  oldest 
native  citizen,  died  of  old  age,  at  his  residence  141  E.  Forty-Fifth  Street,  February  17, 


Cambridge,  Eng.,  and  in  the  Newtown,  L.  I.  records)  minister  at  several  places  in  Massa- 
chusetts and  on  Long  Island,  the  last  being  at  Newtown,  was  the  ancestor  from  whom 
Mr.  Leveridge  claimed  descent,  through  Caleb,-  John,'^  Benjamin,-"  Caleb,'  of  New  York, 
and  Jolin,*'  his  father. 

Joseph  Seely  is  mentioned  as  one  of  the  teachers  whose  school  he  attended.  He  dis- 
tinctly remembered  the  funeral  procession  here  in  honor  of  General  Washington,  which 
with  an  elder  sister,  he  viewed  as  it  passed  the  corner  of  Broadway  and  Vesey  Street.  In 
181 1  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  having  studied  law  with  John  W.  Mulligan,  some  time 
*  Yonkers  Statesman,  November  30  and  December  25,  1S85,  and  January  i,  1886  ;  Yonkers  Gazette,  De- 
cember 5,  1885. 


jj5  Obituary.  [April,  1886. 

private  secretary  to  Baron  Steuben.  In  the  War  of  181 2  he  served  as  a  private,  and 
had  a  pension  during  the  later  years  of  his  life  for  this  service.  For  many  years  he  lived 
and  had  an  office  in  Cherry  Street,  at  one  period  a  favorite  place  with  leading  lawyers. 
He  held  the  position  of  Judge  of  the  Seventh  and  Tenth  Wards  Court.  During  the  may- 
oralty of  James  Harper  he  was  Corporation  Counsel.  He  was  one  of  tlie  founders  of 
the  St.  Nicholas  Society,  and  of  the  Public  School  Society.  A  firm  believer  in  the  doc- 
trines of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  he  long  held  the  office  of  Elder  in  the  Rutgers  Street 
Presbyterian  Church.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  a  member  of  the  Brick  Church, 
corner  of  Fifth  Avenue  and  Thirty-Seventh  Street,  where  a  large  number  of  old  New 
Yorkers,  many  of  them  remarkable  for  their  venerable  appearance,  like  himself,  met  at 
his  funeral  to  pay  their  last  respects  to  a  comrade,  adviser,  and  friend.  He  was  buried 
at  Greenwood  Cemetery. 

Mr.  Leveridge  married.  May  4,  1816,  Adeline  Matilda,  daughter  of  William  Creemer, 
of  Woodbridge,  N.  J.  She  was  born  February  28,  1797.  His  second  wife  was  Mary 
Jane,  daughter  of  John  Poillon  of  this  city.     Eight  children  survive.  E.   E. 

RoDGERS. — A  short  time  ago  it  was  said  by  one  who  knew  him  well,  that  "when 
Alexander  Robertson  Rodgers  should  be  called  to  the  reward  of  his  long,  pure,  and  hon- 
orable life  New  York  would  have  lost  its  most  consummate  gentleman."  That  summons 
came  at  his  home,  414  Madison  Avenue,  at  half-past  five  on  Thursday  afternoon,  Decem- 
ber 31,  18S5,  and  his  remains  were  deposited  a  few  days  later  in  the  vault  of  his  grand- 
father the  Rev.  John  Rodgers,  D.D.  (the  first  American  Doctor  of  Divinity),  of  the 
Revolutionary  army — friend  and  chaplain  of  Washington,  one  of  the  original  members 
of  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati,  and  pastor,  first,  of  the  Wall  Street  Presbyterian  Church, 
and  afterward  of  its  offspring,  known  over  the  United  States  as  "  The  Brick  Church," 
which  was  transplanted  to  the  corner  of  Fifth  Avenue  and  Thirty-seventh  Street.  He 
there  rejoined  also  his  father.  Dr.  John  R.  Bayard  Rodgers,  long  distinguished  in  the 
medical  profession  in  this  city,  who  died  in  1833  ;  and  also  his  elder  brother,  the  physician. 
Dr.  John  Kearny  Rodgers,  who  died  in  1851.  Mr.  Rodgers'  mother  was  the  daughter 
of  Alexander  Robertson,  one  of  the  leading  merchants  of  his  time  ;  and  his  grandmother, 
the  first  wife  of  the  old  Doctor  of  Divinity,  was  Elizabeth  Bayard,  daughter  of  the  well- 
known  Colonel  Peter  Bayard,  of  Bohemia  Manor,  Maryland.  He  was  born  in  this  city, 
and  was  educated  at  Princeton,  graduated  in  1825,  studied  law  with  Peter  Augustus  Jay, 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1828,  but  soon  went  abroad.  In  Paris  he  witnessed  the 
"  three  days"  of  1830;  in  Vienna  he  had  extraordinary  social  advantages,  through  the 
introductions  of  the  Austrian  minister.  Baron  Lederer,  and  the  celebrated  traveller,  Signor 
Beltrami.  He  made  a  tour  in  Italy  and  Sicily  with  two  bright  young  men,  one  of  whom 
became  the  celebrated  Dean  Trench,  now  Archbishop  of  Dublin.  In  1831  he  married 
Miss  Mary  Ridgely  Darden,  of  Maryland,  who  survives  him,  as  do  their  eight  children — 
two  sons  and  six  daughters.  Being  a  man  of  fortune,  and  of  literary  tastes,  he  did  not  at 
once  enter  on  the  practice  of  the  law,  but  lived  in  Westchester  until  they  removed  to 
Fishkill,  where  he  was  building  a  new  home  when  his  fortune  crumbled  to  the  ground  in 
the  great  crash  of  1837,  after  which  he  came  to  the  city  to  work  at  his  profession.  Mr. 
Rodders  was  a  man  of  elegant  culture,  a  good  Greek  and  Latin  sch.olar,  a  "  gentleman  of 
the  old  school,"  yet  keeping  up  with  the  times  ;  witty,  genial,  and  most  kindly;  respected 
and  admired  by  hosts  of  friends.  It  is  doubted  whether  he  ever  spoke  an  unkind  word 
to  a  human  being;  he  certainly  never  did  an  unkind  act.  From  early  manhood  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Presbyterian  church,  his  piety  was  sincere  and  unaffected.  He  was  jealous  but 
never  uncharitable,  an  old  whig  and  modern  republican,  his  political  convictions  were 
firm  thou<di  he  never  took  any  active  part  in  the  politics  of  the  day.  His  eldest  son  re- 
cently returned  from  a  visit  to  Europe,  where  he  received  a  cordial  welcome  from  Arch- 
bishop Trench,  who  sent  his  last  volume  of  poems  to  his  "dear  friend  and  fellow-travel- 
ler," with  the  following  passage  marked  to  recall  their  Sicilian  tour  : 
"  As  I  remember  when  long  years  ago. 

With  the  companions  of  my  youth  I  rode 

'Mid  Sicily's  holm  oaks  and  pastoral  dells, 

All  in  the  flowery  spring,  through  fields  of  thyme, 

Fields  of  all  flowers—  no  lovelier  Euna  knew — 

There  came  to  us  long  after,  blown  from  these, 

Rich  odors  thnt  pursued  us  many  a  mile. 

Embalming  all  the  air  :  so  rode  we  on, 

Though  we  had  changed  our  verdant  meadow-paths' 

For  steep,  rough  tracks  up  dusty  river-beds, 

Yet  haunted  by  that  odorous  fragrance  still."  O. 


^^</^^^  ^^/f^ti^t^ 


THE   NEW   YORK 


Vol.  XVII.  NEW  YORK,  JULY,   i886.  No.  3. 


FOUR    PRIMES. 


By  Edward  Tren^us  Stevenson. 


(Paper  read  before  the  New  York  Genealogical  and  Biographical  Society,  February  12,  1886.) 
(IFitha  Portrait.) 

Mr.  President,  and  Ladies  and  Gentlemen  : 

The  informal  nature  of  the  paper  which  the  courtesy  of  the  Society 
permits  my  offering  this  evening  may  be  more  distinctly  expressed  by  the 
title  "  Notes  on  Some  Members  of  the  Prime  Family  in  America." 
Genealogy  is,  at  best,  an  arid  topic,  more  tolerable  as  matter  of  record 
than  discourse.  It  has  been  affirmed  that  the  worst  of  bores  is  the  man 
who  wants  to  talk  about  himself  when  you  want  to  talk  about  yourself. 
Perhaps  the  arch-bore  is  he  who  would  fain  tell  you  all  about  his  grand- 
fathers just  when  you  have  a  strong  itch  to  tell  him  about  yours.  Most 
of  us,  older  or  younger,  keenly  recollect  turning  with  relief  past  those  curi- 
ous chapters  of  the  Scriptures  the  burden  of  which  seemed  to  be  merely 
that  So-and-So  begat  So-and-So,  and  he,  in  his  turn,  such  a  one — glad  that 
the  task  for  the  day's  committing  did  not  include  precisely  that  sort  of 
Biblical  information.  Although  the  Prime  lineage  does  not  definitely 
chronicle  as  long  a  generation  as  some  ancient  Hebrew  householder,  nor 
as  notable  a  line  of  American  ancestry  as  numerous  other  Middle  States 
and  New  England  families,  it  can,  nevertheless,  point  to  one  of  more  than 
creditable  antiquity,  and  of  so  honorable  and  interesting  a  growth  that  cer- 
tain details  must  always  be  a  matter  of  pride  to  descendants.  Some  of 
them,  at  least,  can  feel  no  deeper  gratification  in  anything  answering  to  the 
question,  "  Who  were  our  grandfathers  and  great-grandfathers  ?  "  than  the 
remembrance  of  their  intimate  connection  with  the  early  literary,  ecclesias- 
tical, and  Revolutionary  history  of  our  country.  When  we  look  about  us 
to-day,  and  are  mindful  of  the  change  since  the  time,  comparatively  re- 
cent, when  it  was  sneeringly  reiterated,  "  Who  reads  an  American  book  ?  " 
and  was  doubtless  often  also  asked,  "  Who  are  the  American  preachers  ?  " 
it  is  a  grateful  thought  that  an  ancestor  has  promoted  the  advance  of  truth, 
learning,  and  patriotism  in  our  new  world.  In  place,  then,  of  devoting 
this  evening  to  the  dry  bones  of  genealogy,  let  us  direct  our  attention  to 


ipS  Four  Primes.  [Ji^lyj 

four  men  in  the  Prime  family,  who  have  done  good  and  interesting  work  in 
the  land  and  passed  away,  and  to  whose  memorials  attaches  a  certain  gen- 
eral interest. 

Tradition  has  asserted  that  three  brothers — once  more,  ladies  and  gen- 
tlemen, those  ever-recurring  "  three  brothers,"  to  which  so  many  Ameri- 
can lines  are  hazily  reverted — three  brothers  named  Prime,  of  an  excellent 
English  family,  left  Liverpool,  England,  about  1650,  and  settled  themselves 
in  Massachusetts.  Only  one  of  the  three,  Mark,  remained  in  Massachu- 
setts. He  located  himself  in  Rowley,  in  that  State  ;  and  from  this  Mark 
descended  that  branch  of  the  Primes  known  to  us  as  *'  the  Massachusetts 
Primes,"  or  "  Rowley  Primes,"  subsequently  represented  in  this  city  by 
Nathaniel  Prime,  founder  of  the  old  banking-house  of  Prime,  Ward  & 
King.*  The  second  brother  concluded  he  could  better  himself  by  going 
southward  ;  so  he  presently  sailed  for  the  then  far-away  Carolinas,  and 
with  his  departure  traces  of  him  are  lost,  James  Prime,  not  improbably 
the  eldest  of  the  trio,  soon  quit  Massachusetts,  in  turn,  for  Connecticut  ; 
became  a  wealthy  and  influential  citizen  of  the  town  of  Milford,  in  that 
State  (which  the  traveller  passes  to-day  as  the  train  draws  near  to  the  city 
of  Bridgeport),  and  he  is  identified  with  Milford's  early  annals.  To  an 
eldest  son,  also  a  James,  and  to  Sarah,  his  wife,  was  born  July  21,  1700 
(Old  Style),  Ebenezer  Prime,  one  of  several  children.  With  him  we  may 
appropriately  first  concern  ourselves  to-night. 

Of  the  boyhood  of  Ebenezer  Prime,  scant  information  has  come  down 
to  his  descendants.  The  Revolutionary  War  scattered  or  destroyed  his 
papers  and  memoranda.  But,  as  a  lad,  we  can  think  of  him  as  already 
manifesting  his  taste  for  study  and  polite  literature,  and  exhibiting  generally 
what  used  to  be  quaintly  termed  "  a  serious  habit  of  mind."  His  schooling 
at  an  end,  and  his  resolution  to  enter  the  Presbyterian  ministry  taken,  he 
matriculated  at  the  near  college  of  Yale,  in  1714.  He  was  then  only  four- 
teen. He  graduated  at  nineteen  ;  thus  setting  an  example  of  early  com- 
pleting a  college  course  which  became  something  of  a  family  characteris- 
tic. He  was  ordained  in  1723,  and  as  the  pastor  of  the  parish  of 
Huntington,  L.  I.  (just  across  the  blue  Sound  from  his  boyhood's  home), 
he  succeeded  to  the  Rev.  Dr.  Eliphalet  Nott,  another  of  our  historical 
American  clergymen. 

Perhaps  we  could  not  find  a  more  typical  life  of  a  country  parson — de- 
vout, zealous,  industrious,  and  prudent,  day  and  night — than  Ebenezer 
Prime's  became.  It  was  long  before  there  were  murmurs  of  a  revolution- 
ary struggle.  Peaceful  colonial  life  was  agitated  only  by  wars  or  rumors  of 
wars  farther  north,  with  the  Indians  or  the  French.  News  travelled  slowly 
— when  it  travelled  at  all.  A  large  and  scattered  parish,  such  as  was 
Huntington,  including  in  its  limits  Cold  Spring,  Red  Hook,  Babylon — 
then  giving  small  hint  of  future  fashionableness — and  half  a  dozen  other 
settlements,  became  Mr.  Prime's  care.  A  man  of  striking  personnel,  an 
accomplished  theologian  and  classical  scholar,  and  with  original  literary 
talent  disciplined  into  a  vigorous  style  which  natural  oratorical  gifts  illus- 
trated, he  speedily  attained  recognition  beyond  Eong  Island  limits,  and  the 
rumor  went  about  adjacent  colonies  that,  hidden  away  in  Huntington  was 
a  learned  as  well  as  excellent  man.  Temporarily  and  spiritually,  Parson 
Prime  became  a  power  in  the  district.  Keenly  interested  in  colonial 
affairs,  he  directed  the  thought,  political  as  well  as  religious,  of  the  neigh- 

*  To-day  (under  another  name)  doing  business  in  this  city. 


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borhood.  In  those  days,  too,  the  minister  stood  hourly  up  before  his  peo- 
ple, in  Long  Island  as  well  as  in  Puritan  communities,  as  the  man — the 
visible  representative  of  whatsoever  was  best  and  most  to  be  patterned 
after.  By  his  gravity  of  demeanor,  his  singleness  of  life,  his  careful  behav- 
ior, he  had  to  maintain  that  old  and  popular  notion  of  his  calling  which — 
it  is  to  be  regretted — has  sensibly  mitigated  in  many  respects  to-day.  And 
endless  were  the  calls  to  be  made,  usually  on  horseback  (when  one  can 
see  in  his  mind's  eye  the  dignified  rider,  erect  in  his  saddle,  absorbed  in 
working  out  the  seventh,  or  seventeenth,  or  twenty-seventh  head  of  his 
next  Sabbath's  discourse — for  the  sermons  of  those  days  were  veritable 
hydras  in  one  respect).  Incessant  must  have  been  the  counsels,  diplo- 
matic and  secular,  to  be  given,  peace  to  be  kept  in  the  parish,  nice  differ- 
ences to  be  equipoised  between  man  and  man,  who  came  to  their  minister 
for  arbitration  as  unto  an  incorruptible  judge.  The  pulpit  was  to  be  filled 
twice  or  thrice  of  a  Sunday,  or  a  fast-day,  with  dignity  and  sonority  ;  and 
the  sort  of  preaching  relished  at  that  time  possessed  a  good  deal  of 
specific  gravity.  And  we  may  be  reminded  in  this  connection,  that  the 
high-minded  country  divine  of  seventeen-hundred-odd  might  busy  himself 
with  private  searchings  into  the  strict  orthodoxy  of  this  or  that  article  of 
faith,  and  strive  in  new  and  untried  ways  to  find  out  his  God  more  clearly  : 
but  if  he  did  so  strive,  his  calm  hearers  were  not  made  his  confidants,  nor 
their  established  faith  unsettled  by  every  idle  wind,  such  as  frequently  rends 
modern  congregations  into  factions  and  sunders  them  apart,  leaving  them, 
after  all,  with  only  wind  in  their  ears.  It  is  scarcely  necessary  to  remark, 
by  the  by,  that  the  rural  parson  of  the  period  received  more  deference  than 
tithes,  and  that  his  esteem  among  his  people,  and  the  salary  they  paid  him, 
would  have  made  no  sort  of  an  equation  according  to  ideas  of  our  time. 
We  have  heard  a  good  deal  about  that  very  mysterious  clerical  convenience, 
"  the  sermon-barrel,"  which  each  industrious  pastor  is  supposed  to  fill, 
little  by  little  ;  on  special  occasions  ransack,  and,  after  he  has  reached  a 
legitimate  age,  overturn.  The  "  sermon-barrel  "  of  Rev.  Ebenezer  Prime 
would  have  been  a  well-furnished  receptacle  ;  for  we  hear  of  his  writing  no 
less  than  three  thousand  distinct  discourses,  the  majority  of  them  well  on 
toward  an  hour  or  so  in  length,  and  finished  vvith  an  elegance  that  illus- 
trated his  peculiar  gifts.  Some  of  them  were  printed  and  are  extant  as 
•witnesses  to  their  acceptability. 

But  it  was  with  the  closing  years  of  Ebenezer  Prime's  life  in  Hunting- 
ton, and  when  the  great  national  outbreaking  waxed  more  and  more  inev- 
itable and  finally  came  to  pass,  that  he  stands  out  as  a  patriot  and  an 
enthusiastic  promoter  of  revolutionary  zeal.  His  only  son  had  returned 
from  foreign  parts  to  the  village  ;  and,  as  we  shall  presently  further  set 
forth,  was  himself  on  fire  with  the  war  spirit.  Parson  Prime,  of  Hunting- 
ton, old  as  he  had  grown,  was  among  those  American  ministers  who  rec- 
ognized the  depth  and  breadth  of  the  crisis,  and  the  fact  that  the  Gospel 
was  not  always  to  be  the  Gospel  of  Peace.  He  preached  ;  he  exhorted  ; 
he  wrote,  printed  and  circulated  ;  and  enjoined  resistance  with  all  the  force 
of  his  tongue  and  his  pen.  We  can  hear  his  sturdy  voice  answering  to  the 
question  if  the  sword  of  the  Lord  was  lifted  against  British  oppression, 
"  Strike,  my  brethren  !  Surely  Jehovah  is  on  the  side  of  the  Colonies  !  " 
And  thus  the  young  and  the  elderly  men  of  Huntington  got  into  their 
hastily-sewn  uniforms  and  tramped  asvay,  feeling  sure  that  old  Parson 
Prime  prayed  for  every  man  of  them  in  his  quiet  church  on  Sunday,  and 


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thought  of  them,  sitting  by  his  desk  in  his  still  study.  No  wonder  that 
before  long  the  minister's  name  became  a  stench  in  the  nostrils  of  the 
British  invaders  and  Tories.  Not  a  few  leaders,  stationed  round  about, 
swore  that  they  would  be  revenged  on  him  for  his  courage  if  ever  theiy  got 
the  chance.  And  they  got  it  ;  and  the  patriotic  old  preacher  suffered  for 
his  burning  words.  Long  Island  was  invested  ;  Huntington  was  occu- 
pied. The  minister,  his  son,  and  their  households  had  to  fly  at  once,  cast- 
ing their  silver*  and  valuables  into  a  well  for  security.  The  troopers  gut- 
ted and  devastated  the  church  and  the  parsonage,  turning  the  house  into  a 
barracks,  smashing  and  burning  effects,  destroying  the  parson's  library  and 
papersin  wanton  malice,  and  hacking  up  the  very  pews  in  the  old  church  for 
firewood.  In  further  instance  of  the  rooted  hatred  of  the  soldiery  toward 
the  preacher  and  his  kin,  when,  toward  the  conclusion  of  the  war,  Hunt- 
ington was  once  more  occupied  by  the  British,  Colonel  Thompson  (better 
known  by  his  Bavarian  title  of  Count  Rumford)  directed  the  special  fury  of 
his  detachment  once  more  against  the  parsonage  and  even  its  late  pastor 
— for  Ebenezer  Prime  was  dead  and  lay  buried  in  the  churchyard  there. 
Under  Thompson,  the  house  was  again  sacked,  the  church  converted  into 
a  stable ;  all  that  came  to  hand  burned  or  spoiled,  day  in  and  day  out ;  and 
the  Colonel  himself  ordered  that  his  own  tent  should  be  pitched  where,  as 
he  expressed  it,  he  "  could  never  walk  in  or  out  of  it  without  treading  on 
the  head  of  that  damned  old  rebel,  Ebenezer  Prime."  f 

So  much  for  the  bravery  of  a  godly  and  courageous  man.  The  later 
years  of  his  life  were  sadly  unsettled  ;  and  he  died  before  the  end  of  the 
contest,  an  exile  from  his  beloved  Huntington,  and  with  the  dawn  of  his 
country's  independence  hardly  abreak,  its  peace,  for  which  he  so  prayed, 
an  uncertainty.  His  body  was  borne  to  Huntington,  as  he  had  requested  ; 
and  there  the  curious  visitor  may  to-day  see  the  well-preserved  resting-place 
of  a  pre-Revolutionary  and  Revolutionary  minister,  described  by  one  of  his 
biographers  as  "  a  man  of  sterling  character,  of  powerful  intellect,  an  able 
and  faithful  divine" — and  certainly  one  to  whom  his  descendants  proudly 
allude  as  the  "rebel"  and  the  patriotic  Christian. 

The  life  of  a  son,  more  distinguished  than  his  father,  next  engages  our 
attention.  It  offers  even  more  definitely  interesting  matter,  as  well  as  a 
fine  instance  of  inherited  tastes  and  talents.  Thanks  to  Duyckinck  and 
Griswold  and  others,  as  well  as  the  bookshelves  of  collectors,  the  reliques 
of  Dr.  Benjamin  Young  Prime's  literary  and  patriotic  life,  in  their  orig- 
inal shape,  put  us  in  possession  of  much  that  stamps  him  from  among  the 
men  of  his  day.  Although  a  layman,  he  was  a  still  more  influential  and 
ardent  patriot  of  his  State  than  his  father,  and  more  intimately  connected 
with  the  beginnings  of  our  literary  history. 

Benjamin  Young  Prime  was  born  in  the  old  Huntington  parsonage  on 
December  20,  1733  ;  forty-three  years  before  the  Revolution.  After  a 
careful  preparation  he  entered  the  College  of  New  Jersey — then  situated 
at  Newark — and  thence  graduated  in  1751,  with  honor.  He  had  early  de- 
cided on  the  profession  of  medicine  ;  and  after  serving  in  his  college  for  a 
time  as  an  officer  and  instructor,  he  decided  upon  pursuing  his  medical 
studies  in  Europe.  He  sailed  for  the  Continent  accordingly,  and  was  soon 
hard  at  work. 

*  A  tankard  {belonging  to  his  daughter-in-law)  so  hid,  stands  beside  the  writer's  portfolio  in  his  study. 
t  The  cemetery  was  selected  by  the  troops  as  their  camping-ground  ;  and  the  verj'  grave-stones  were 
used  by  them  in  bake-ovens. 


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Professional  training  in  Europe  was  a  piivilege  decidedly  rare  in  that 
day.  Indeed,  as  late  as  1791,  we  are  told  that  "  the  man  who  had  crossed 
the  ocean  and  seen  the  sights  and  manners  of  the  Old  Country,  was  apt  to 
be  pointed  out  as  a  notably  travelled  person."  And  recollecting  that  it 
was  a  determination  to  make  a  really  skilful  practitioner  out  of  himself  by 
his  foreign  courses,  one  cannot  but  wonder  at  the  difference  between  the 
advantages  of  young  doctors  before  the  Revolution  and  those  ordinarily  the 
students'  in  our  time.  It  may  be  said,  in  fact,  tliat  all  was  disadvantage,  ex- 
cept to  such  as  were  lucky  enough  to  live  in  the  largest  cities.  ''There 
were,"  says  one  of  our  historians,  "  but  two  medical  schools  in  the  coun- 
try ;  nor  were  they,  by  reason  of  the  expense  and  dangers  of  travelling,  by 
any  means  well  attended."  The  young  student  had  to  scratch  together  his 
learning  as  best  he  could,  while  pounding  up  triturations,  rolling  pills, 
shaking  up  black-draughts,  leaving  ph)sic  here  and  there  throughout  the 
town,  and  rinsing  beakers  and  bottles.  Practical  anatomy  was  nearly  out 
of  the  question.  Dissection  ?  Bless  our  progenitors'  hearts  !  That  was 
deemed  work  for  ghouls,  not  doctors,  nor  any  other  decent  folk  ;  and  it  had 
to  be  exercised  in  strictest  secrecy,  so  rabid  was  the  prejudice.  In  short, 
a  young  physician  in  the  American  Colonies,  circum  1760-70,  had  to  feel 
his  way  in  semi-darkness  to  assisting  his  fellow-mortals  in  or  out  of  the 
world  ;  and  his  experienced  practice  was  more  like  the  having  learned  to 
walk  in  that  darkness  than  really  seeing  the  way  before  him. 

Benjamin  Prime  was  a  diligent  student  at  lectures  and  in  hospital 
practice  in  Edinburgh,  London,  Paris,  and  Leyden — graduating  at  Leyden's 
great  university  in  1 763.  His  brilliant  parts  and  attractive  presence  in- 
troduced him  into  choice  social  circles  abroad.  After  a  stay  of  some  years 
he  returned  to  the  Colonies,  and  to  residing  (for  the  most  part  of  the 
time)  in  the  quiet  comfort  of  his  Long  Island  home,  a  singularly  accom- 
plished physician  and  surgeon,  and  possessed  of  a  particularly  complete 
library  and  working  apparatus.  A  propos  of  this,  we  may  smile  in  con- 
sidering the  specialism  of  our  epoch,  contrasted  with  the  confidence  of  the 
doctor  of  a  century  ago,  who  had  to  represent  in  his  single-self  so  many 
functions — to  diagnose  and  dose,  play  the  dentist  (usually  employing  that 
remorseless  contrivance,  the  turn-key),  to  set  limbs  or  remove  them  with- 
out thought  of  any  anaesthetic,  to  mix  and  pound  with  his  own  hand  almost 
every  nauseous  compound  that  he  believed  so  sovereign  ;  and,  above  all 
things,  to  be  ever  ready  to  administer  calomel  or  bleed  the  luckless 
patient,  as  the  most  natural  remedy  for  all  the  ills  that  flesh  is  heir  to. 
This  was  the  awful  course  of  procedure,  the  kind  of  "  doctoring  "  with- 
out which  it  would  seem  that  some  of  our  fond  ancestors  might  have  been 
living  to-day.      It  is  no  wonder  that  they  are  not. 

But  Benjamin  Young  Prime  had  better  work  cut  out  for  him  than  cup- 
ping patients.  His  influence  was  to  extend  quite  beyond  a  corner  of  Long 
Island,  and  his  ministrations  not  to  be  confined  to  those  of  the  body. 
He  and  his  father,  Ebenezer,  must  have  been  a  congenial  pair  in  their 
passion  for  literature  and  tlieir  political  sentiments.  Benjamin  had  come 
home  having  already  put  together  a  good  deal  of  rhyme  and  reason,  con- 
versant with  six  languages  and  writing  fluently  French,  German,  and 
Spanish,  as  well  as  classical  tongues.  When  the  war  began  he  caught 
all  of  his  venerable  father's  enthusiasm,  and,  unable  to  quit  the  household, 
he  broke  out  into  stirringly  patriotic  verses  which  spread  from  place  to 
place  and,  ere  long,  gave  huii  a  wide  if  evanescent  fame.     His  songs  and 


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ballads  inflamed  the  regiments  that  marched  to  Princeton  and  to  Stillwater  ; 
circulated  in  "  broadsides  ;  "  his  battle-lyrics  passed  from  hand  to  hand 
and  became  hummed  and  chorused  by  his  brethren  as  they  paced  up  and 
down,  with  their  muskets  upon  their  shoulders,  before  the  rude  huts  at  Val- 
ley Forge,  or  made  the  mess-room  ring  with  defiant  jollity  after  some  suc- 
cessful skirmish  at  Yorktown.  The  best  of  them  have  kept  their  place  in 
collections  to-day,  and  can  be  perused  by  those  interested.  In  the  year 
1764,  he  had  published  at  London  a  book  of  verse,  "  The  Patriot  Muse  ; 
or  Poems  on  Some  of  the  Principal  Events  of  the  Late  [Provincial]  War." 

In  1791  his  second  collection,  "Columbia's  Glory;  or,  British  Pride 
Humbled,"  appeared.  Some  years  after  his  death  a  limited  selection  of 
his  patriotic,  elegiac,  and  other  poetry,  translations,  and  paraphrases  in 
several  languages,  was  edited  by  his  son.  Rev.  Dr.  Nathaniel  Scudder 
Prime.  As  Rufus  Griswold  observes,  almost  their  entire  contents  is  to  be 
distinguished  for  unusual  taste  and  care,  his  Greek  and  Latin  hexame^ 
ters  and  sapphics  elegantly  turned,  and  his  poems  in  the  vernacular  char- 
acterized by  strength  and  sentiment.  A  contemporary  with  Royal  Tyler, 
Philip  Freneau,  and  Francis  Hopkinson,  and  antedating  by  a  few  years 
the  famous  author  of  "The  Columbiad,"  Benjamin  Young  Prime  merits  his 
inclusion  in  their  company  that  various  critics  have  given  him. 

I  shall  take  from  among  his  poems  only  two — one  the  famous  "  Song 
For  the  Sons  of  Liberty  in  New  York,"  which  a  commentator  declares  "  su- 
perior to  any  patriotic  lyric  at  that  time  written  in  this  country,"  and  a 
thing  that  certainly  has  the  true  ring  of  animated  patriotism  ;  and  the  sec- 
ond, a  little  satire  directed  at  an  English  officer  who,  during  the  last 
French  and  Indian  War,  had  found  his  bravery  unequal  to  his  responsibili- 
ties, and  contrived  to  be  ordered  home. 


A  Song  for  the  "Soins  of  Liberty  in  New  York: 
OF  THE  Stamp  Act. 


Composed  at  the  Time 


In  story  we're  told 

How  our  fathers  of  old 

Brav'd  the  rage  of  the  wind  and  the  waves 

And  crossed  the  deep,  o'er 

To  this  desolate  shore, 

All  because  they  were  loath  to  be  slaves — 

Brave  boys, 
All  because  they  were  loath  to  be  slaves  ! 

Yet  a  strange  scheme,  of  late. 
Has  been  formed  in  the  State 
By  a  lot  of  political  knaves 
Who,  in  secret,  rejoice 
That  the  Parliament's  voice 
Has  resolved  that  we  all  shall  be  slaves  ! 
Brave  boys,  etc. 

But  if  we  should  obey 

This  vile  statute,  the  way 

To  more  base  future  slavery  paves ; 

Nor,  in  spite  of  our  pain, 

Must  we  ever  complain 

If  we  tamely  submit  to  be  slaves  ! 

Brave  boys,  etc.  I 


Counteract  then,  we  must, 
A  decree  so  unjust. 

Which  our  wise  constitution  depraves ; 
And  all  Nature  conspires 
To  approve  our  desires, 
For  she  cautions  us  not  to  be  slaves  ! 
Brave  boys,  etc. 


As  the  sun's  lucid  ray 
To  all  nations  gives  day, 
And  a  world  from  obscurity  saves, 
So  all  happy  and  free 
George's  subjects  should  be, 
Then  Americans  must  not  be  slaves  ! 
Brave  boys,  etc. 


Heaven,  only,  controls 
The  great  deep,  as  it  rolls, 
And  the  tide  which  our  continent 
Emphatical,  roars 
This  advice  to  our  shores, 
O,  Americans,  never  be  slaves  ! 
Brave  boys,  etc. 


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Hark  !  the  wind  as  it  flies, 
Though  o'erruled  by  the  skies, 
While  it  each  meaner  obstacle  braves 
Seems  to  say,  "  Be  like  me, 
Always  loyally  free, 
But,  ah,  never  consent  to  lie  slaves  !  " 
Brave  boys,  etc. 

To  our  monarch,  we  know 
Due  allegiance  \Ve  owe. 
Who  the  sceptre  so  rightfully  waves  ; 
But  no  sov'reign  we  own 
But  the  king  on  the  throne. 
And  cannot,  to  subjects,  be  slaves  ! 
Brave  boys,  etc. 


Though  fools  stupidly  tell 
That  we  mean  to  rebel. 
Yet  all  each  American  craves 
Is  but  to  be  free, 
As  we  surely  must  be, 
For  we  never  were  born  to  be  slaves  ! 
Brave  boys,  etc. 

But  whoever,  in  spite 

At  American  right, 

Like  insolent  Haman  behaves, 


Or  would  wish  to  grow  great 
On  the  spoils  of  the  State, 
May  he  and  his  children  be  slaves  ! 
Brave  boys,  etc. 

Though  against  the  repeal, 
With  intemperate  zeal 
Proud  Granville  so  brutishly  raves, 
Yet  our  conduct  shall  show, 
And  our  enemies  know 
That  Americans  scorn  to  be  slaves  ! 
Brave  boys,  etc. 

With  the  beasts  of  the  wood 
We  will  ramble  for  food  ! 
We  will  lodge  in  the  deserts  and  caves. 
And  live  poor  as  Job, 
On  the  skirts  of  the  globe, 
Before  we'll  submit  to  be  slaves  ! 
Brave  boys,  etc. 

The  birthright  we  hold. 

Shall  never  be  sold, 

But  sacred  maintained  to  our  graves  ; 

And  before  we'll  comply, 

We  will  gallantly  die. 

For  we  must  not,  we  will  not,  be  slaves  ! 

Brave  boys  ! 
For  we  must  not,  we  will  not,  be  slaves  ! 


The  last  two  verses  of  this  ballad  are  eminently  spirited,  and  the  lyric 
quality  is  decided  throughout. 

And  now  for  the  satirical  skit  mentioned  : 

To  A  Certain  Brave  Officer,  just  returned  from  the  Campaign, 'iiysg. 
(Extempore.)  N.  B.:  The  i)idividiial  addressed  zoas  a  Notorious  Braggadocio,  and, 
withal,  a  finished  Dandy,  wearing  his  hair  highly  dressed  and  tucked  up  with  a  comb. 
His  better-half  zvas  a  perfect  contrast  to  her  spouse.  * 

Hah  !  Captain  Queue  !  What,  is  it  you? 
And  may  I  squeeze  your  thumb,  sir  ? 
Yes — on  my  word  ! — I  see  your  sword  ; 
Well,  you  are  welcome  home,  sir. 

From  summer's  heat,  from  toil  and  sweat, 
Borne  (for  a  trifling  sum),  sir. 
To  peaceful  rest — in  your  own  nest, 
You're  very  welcome  home,  sir. 

From  northern  snows,  which  Boreas  blows, 
That  make  one's  fingers  numb,  sir. 
To  the  bright  spires  of  winter  fires 
You're  very  welcome  home,  sir. 

From  tents  in  camp,  so  cold  and  damp, 
To  your  convenient  dome,  sir. 
Safe  from  the  storm — so  dry  and  warm. 
You're  very  welcome  home,  sir. 


*  Ah,  Doctor  Prime  !   That  sly  fling  was  truly  ungallant ! 


204  Four  Primes.  [July, 

From  the  bleak  coasts  where  northern  gusts 
Make  wild  Ontario  foam,  sir, 
To  Nassau's  shores,  where  ocean  roars, 
You're  very  welcome  home,  sir. 

From  war's  dread  noise — the  cannon's  voice, 
And  daily  beat  of  drums,  sir, 
To  the  shrill  notes  of  female  throats, 
You're  very  welcome  home,  sir. 

From  savage  blades,  whose  painted  heads 
Appear  so  dreadful  glum,  sir, 
To  the  soft  looks  of  civil  folks, 
You're  very  welcome  home,  sir. 

From  war's  alarms,  from  fatal  harms. 
From  powder,  bullets,  bombs,  sir, 
To  Sylvia's  charms — in  Sylvia's  arms,   » 
You're  very  welcome  home,  sir. 

From  Mohawk  squaws — against  the  laws 
Converted  into  strums,  sir, 
T'  a  sober  life — with  your  own  wife — 
You're  very  welcome  home,  sir. 

At  your  return,  through  spite  and  scorn 
Your  enemies  are  dumb,  sir  ; 
But  for  my  part — with  all  my  heart, 
I  bid  you  welcome  home,  sir. 

Alive  again,  from  the  campaign 

I'm  glad  to  see  you  come,  sir  ; 

Safe  from  the  war — without  a  scar, 

You're  very  welcome  home,  sir.  "■ 

The  rapid  flight  of  balls  in  fight 
Has  proved  the  death  of  some,  sir  ; 
Your  life  you  chose  not  to  expose. 
You're  very  welcome  home,  sir. 

You've  struck  no  blows — subdued  no  foes  ; 
Nor  were  you  overcome,  sir  ; 
You  scaled  no  Alps,  'tis  true,  for  scalps — 
Yet  you  have  safe  got  home,  sir. 

'If  you  can't  fight  with  such  delight 
As  you  can  wear  a  comb,  sir. 
Yet  well  I  know  that  you  can  crow  ; 
Come,  then — you're  welcome  home,  sir  ! 

Others  aspire  to  ranks  still  higher 
And  greater  men  become,  sir  ; 
But  you,  content,  plain  captain  went — 
And  such  you  are  come  home,  sir. 

You  went  to  quell  that  Imp  of  Hell— 
I  mean,  the  Pope  of  Rome,  sir — 
And  now  you  may — at  leisure  — slay 
The  Man  of  Sin  at  home,  sir. 

My  joyful  tongue  has  run  so  long 

'Tis  almost  tired  ;  but  mum,  sir  ! 

I  cannot  stay,  but  must  away — so,  once  for  aye, 

You're  very  welcome  home,  sir. 


1 886.]  Fota-  Primes.  205 

If  "Captain  Queue  "  was  a  "gentleman  of  tigure  "  in  society  and  had 
a  skin  of  reasonable  thinness,  the  foregoing  witty  piece  of  impudence  must 
have  pricked  him  for  many  days  like  a  burr — "  You're  very  welcome 
home,  sir,"  indeed  !  * 

The  later  years  of  Dr.  Benjamin  Young  Prime's  life  were,  like  those  of 
his  honored  father,  not  a  Httle  unsettled  by  the  progress  of  the  national 
contest,  and  by  the  persecutions  of  the  regiments  in  the  vicinity,  who  left 
no  stone  unturned  that  would  attest  their  hatred  to  older  and  younger 
patriot.  He  had  to  flee  from  Huntingdon,  more  than  once,  leaving  well- 
nigh  everything  behind  him  at  the  mercy  of  the  troopers.  Part  of  the 
time  he  remained  in  New  York  City,  a  busy  patriot.  But  he  lived  to  see 
what  his  father  did  not— the  close  of  the  war,  the  peace  reluctantly  made 
by  the  discomfited  redcoats  ;  and  then  died,  respected  and  lamented  by  all, 
in  1791.  He  had  married,  in  J774,  Mrs.  Mary  Wheelwright  Greaton,  a 
widow,  and  a  member  of  the  old  Wheelwright  family,  of  Boston  ;  and  hus- 
band and  wife  lie  side  by  side  to-night  in  the  quiet  cemetery  of  the  old 
Long  Island  town. 

Prominent  in  the  family  lineage  stands  forth  next  a  son  of  the  above, 
Rev.  Dr.  Nathaniel  Scudder  Prime,  upon  whose  shoulders  fell  the  mantle 
of  his  grandfather  and  father — although  the  life  of  Nathaniel  Scudder  Prime 
has  a  less  historic  accentuation,  and  his  work  as  a  literary  man  and  a 
preacher  is  not  so  picturesque  for  illustration.  Born  to  Benjamin  Young 
Prime  and  Mary  Wheelright  Greaton,  his  wife,  in  1785  (December  21),  at 
Huntington,  and  named  from  his  father's  beloved  friend,  Nathaniel  Scudder, 
the  patriot,  he  entered  Princeton  College  and  graduated  at  nmeteen — thus 
keeping  the  ancestral  custom.  His  theological  studies  ended,  Nathaniel 
Prime  was  ordained  to  the  Presbyterian  ministry,  and  began  his  pastoral 
work  at  Sag  Harbor,  Long  Island,  in  1806.  From  the  outset  he  dis- 
played the  admirable  literary  talents  and  peculiar  power  as  a  speaker 
which  it  is  possible  some  who  listen  to  this  paper  may  call  to  memory. 
The  greater  portion  of  his  busy  life  was  not  led  in  the  region  where 
his  father  and  grandfather  passed  theirs;  for  shortly  after  his  marriage 
to  Julia  Jermain,  of  the  old  Jermain  [Jordan],  family  he  removed 
to  an  inland  portion  of  New  York  State,  and  there  identified  himself 
with    several    charges,  including  those  of  Ballston,   Old  Cambridge,   and 

*  Since  this  article  was  prepared,  Mr.  Henry  T.  Drovvne,  of  this  Society,  has  called  ray  attention  to  a 
curious  and  characteristic  letter  of  Dr.  B.  Y.  Prime,  addressed  to  Dr.  Petrus  Tappan,  of  Esopus,  N.  Y., 
and  reprinted  in  a  volume  (of  private  papers)  entitled,  "  New  York  City  During  the  Revohition,"  published 
in  i85i  by  the  Mercantile  Library. 

"  New  York,  April  12,  1770. 

"  Sir  : 

.  .  .'  "Capt.  McDougal  is  indeed  in  Jail  and  I  hope  if  he  is  brought  to  tryal  he  will  come  off  with 
flying  colours.  The  party  against  him  is  very  virulent  and  I  hope  impotent.  I  myself,  am  threatened  (by 
papers  thrown  into  my  house)  with  a  Damnation  Drubbing  and  Imprisonment  on  suspicion  of  bemg  the 
Author  of  the  Watchman.  So  that  for  4  or  5  Weeks  past,  I've  walked  the  Streets  (especially  of  an  even- 
ing) arm'd  with  either  a  Sword  or  Pistols  or  both.  No  attempt  however  has  been  made  upon  me,  except  the 
night  the  first  letter  was  thrown  in,  when  (as  my  serv't  tells  me),  a  man  knocked  at  my  door,  dressed  in  a 
flapped  hat.  over  clubb'd  hair,  a  Watch-Coat,  a  Ruffled  Shirt  and  a  Pair  of  Sailors  Trousers.  A  pretty 
kind  of  Disguise  indeed!  I'm  likewise  accused  by  one  of  the  papers  thrown  into  my  house  of  being  the 
Author  of  the  Paper  signed  Legion  :  though  God  knows  I'm  not  the  Author  of  the  one  paper  or  the  other. 
You  see,  and  I  hope  you  will  in  your  Town,  properly  represent,  the  conduct  of  the  party  opposed  to  us. 

"  In  case  of  a  new  Election,  I  hope  you  will  exert  vourself  so  far  as  your  influence  extends  and  so  far  as 
your  connections  will  admit,  to  procure  the  Election  of  such  Members  as  you  can  believe  will  prove  friends 
to  their  country'.  ,,       ,     .  ■       ,    tt  > 

"  If  I'm  not  mistaken,  I've  heard  that  Mr.  Clinton  has  marr>''d  your  Sister.  If  so  1  give  you  joy  !  He  s 
a  verv  good  man  ;  but  I'm  afraid  he  has  been  overseen  in  voting  against  Friend  McDougal— /..?.,  joining  in 
the  Vote  that  the  Paper  signed  A  Sofi  of  Liberty  was  a  Libel  ;  whoever  it  might  be  that  wrote  it.     .     .     . 

"  Sir, 

"  Your  Humble  Servant, 

"  Benj.  Young  Primf." 


206  Four  Primes.  (July, 

Newburgh,  twenty  years  of  his  services  being  given  to  Cambridge.  A 
summary  of  his  career  and  characteristics  I  can  more  becomingly  draw 
from  another  biographer.  He  observes :  .  .  .  "  Widely  known  and 
influential,  continually  foremost  in  all  that  concerned  the  good  of  the 
community  and  its  moral,  mental,  and  social  progress,  his  will  be  a  name 
long  familiar  to  those  who  have  lived  later  than  his  day.  He  became  a 
strikingly  eloquent  speaker,  and  his  very  presence  in  the  desk  was  a  type 
of  vigorous  manhood  and  of  clerical  dignity  without  assumption.  He  was 
a  particularly  close  observer  of  current  thought,  a  learned  theologian,  the 
collector  of  a  fine  library,  a  wise  counsellor,  and  a  zealous  promoter  of 
education."  It  may  be  mentioned  that  Dr.  Nathaniel  Prime  was  among 
the  first  American  clergymen  who  took  a  sudden  and  decided  stand  on  the 
question  of  temperance,  enforcing  it  from  his  pulpit  and  by  his  own  exam- 
ple in  a  fashion  decidedly  unique  in  days  when  the  clergy  were  yet  to  be 
waked  to  a  matter  now  of  such  national  and  direful  importance.  After 
assuming  the  principalship  of  several  educational  seminaries  which  attained 
enviable  note,  Dr.  Prime  retired  from  active  life  and  entered  upon  a  se- 
rene old  age;  passing  quietly  away  during  the  still  evening  on  March  27, 
1856,  as  he  laid  down  his  pen  upon  a  sermon  he  was  preparing.  His  dis- 
courses numbered  over  two  thousand  ;  and  when  he  had  approached  mid- 
dle life  he  one  day  put  into  the  fire  some  five  hundred  of  them,  lest,  as  he 
conscientiously  explained,  "  he  should  find  himself  growing  indolent  in  his 
old  age  and  disposed  to  rest  upon  his  oars  !  "  Among  his  printed  works, 
one  merits  special  recognition  here — his  excellent  "History  of  Long  Island," 
upon  which  he  spent  much  care  and  which  is  still  a  standard  (and  rather 
scarce)  authority.  And  it  is  interesting  to  remark  that  this  typical  minister 
of  the  old  school,  and  author,  left  behind  him,  to  at  once  sustain  the  family 
name  and  its  hereditary  tastes,  four  sons,  all  working  away  in  the  old  grooves 
of  professional  life — two  as  clergymen,  a  third  as  a  physician,  and  a  fourth 
as  a  lawyer;  but  each  so  actively  occupied  with  letters  as  to  be  pre- 
eminently recognized  as  literary  men. 

We  have  thus  successively  taken  up  the  characters  and  work  of  three 
generations  of  a  family — 1700  to  1856,  one  hundred  and  fifty  six  years — one 
member  out  of  each  generation  who  most  interestingly  serves  as  a  represent- 
ative. I  should  gladly  touch  upon  what  others  have  been  and  have  done, 
through  pulpit  or  press,  were  not  further  enlargement  scarcely  permissible 
to  a  biographer  of  the  same  blood,  if  not  name,  and  did  not  the  limits  of 
this  paper  forbid.  But  in  deference  to  the  request  of  the  Society,  and  with 
an  appropriateness  too  distinct  to  be  slighted,  I  may,  in  conclusion,  dwell 
for  a  few  moments  on  the  life  and  career  of  one  of  the  family  line  who  has 
lately  left  us  and  gone  over  unto  the  majority.  Dr.  Samuel  Irenaeus  Prime, 
a  member  of  this  Society,  in  the  concerns  of  which,  ever  a  matter  of  such 
interest  to  him,  he  can  no  more  take  part.  With  the  successive  incidents 
of  his  busy  life,  either  personal  intimacy  or  the  various  published  accounts 
which  followed  upon  his  decease  in  July  last,  have  made  his  acquaintance 
sufliciently  familiar.  Born  at  Ballston,  N.  Y.,  on  November  4,  1812,  to  Rev. 
Dr.  Nathaniel  Scudder  Prime  and  Julia  Jermain,  his  wife,  he  graduated  at 
Williams  College  when  seventeen  years  of  age,  an  honor  man  of  his  class. 
In  1833  he  preached  his  first  sermon.  His  pastoral  life  was  comparatively 
brief,  owing  to  ill  health  ;  and  accordingly,  after  taking  a  charge  at  Balls- 
ton  in  1835  (the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  which  he  lived  to  celebrate  in  June, 
1885),  and  another  at  Matteawan,  on  the  Hudson,  he  entered  upon  his  con- 


1 886.]  Four  Primes,  207 

nection  with  the  New  York  Observer,  with  which  paper  his  name  became 
in  time  so  indissolubly  associated  that  it  was  often  said  that  the  Observer 
had  become  Dr.  Samuel  Irenjeus  Prime  and  Dr.  Prime  the  Observer. 
With  his  proprietorship,  that  began  in  part  in  1858,  the  paper  entered  on  a 
notable  portion  of  its  career,  and  rose  to  its  honored  rank  among  our  re- 
ligious journals.  The  "  Irenjeus  Letters,"  which  presently  became  a  popu- 
lar feature  in  it,  have  numbered  between  two  and  three  thousand.  For 
twelve  years,  in  connection  with  Harper's  Magazine,  Dr.  Prime's  character- 
istic humor  overflowed  into  its  Drawer ;  and  along  with  all  his  editorial 
activity  in  various  directions,  he  put  to  press  those  numerous  volumes  of 
biography,  travel,  and  religious  record  which  have  won  such  general  ac- 
ceptance. 

The  life  of  Dr.  Samuel  Irenaeus  Prime  may  be  observed  from  four  stand- 
points— that  of  the  preacher,  the  author,  the  editor,  and  the  private  man. 
But  with  its  details,  his  prominence  in  the  religious  activities  of  our  day, 
his  association  with  its  educational  and  literary  institutions,  his  wide  ac- 
quaintance and  correspondence  with  the  leading  men  of  this  country  and 
the  Old  World,  in  all  callings  and  connections,  and  with  his  social  and  per- 
sonal individuality,  most  of  those  who  hear  me  are  familiar.  Under  the 
circumstances,  too,  it  is  more  suitable  for  one  so  nearly  related  as  the 
speaker  to  select  a  brief  passage  from  another  pen,  in  comprehensive  wit- 
ness to  what  Dr.  Samuel  Prime  was,  and  what  he  did  before  he  was  called 
hence  : 

"  His  name  is  a  household  word  and  his  enduring  fame  is  secure, 
like  Washington's,  in  the  hearts  and  gratitude  of  his  countrymen.  For  I 
know  of  no  man  in  this  country,  in  the  past  fifty  years,  in  public  or  private 
station,  who  has  made  a  lasting  mark  for  good  on  more  minds.  He  en- 
tered the  family — that  foundation  of  your  churches  and  State.  He  incul- 
cated a  pure  religion.  He  recommended  Christianity  to  the  young  and 
old,  by  the  grace  and  geniality  of  his  writings.  .  .  .  He  was  well 
named  "Irenjeus."  His  life  was  an  irenicon.  He  hated  war.  He  loved 
peace,  and  studied  peace,  and  advocated  peace,  in  Church,  and  State,  and 
family.  Yet,  there  was  nothing  weak  or  compromising  in  his  nature,  or 
treatment  of  great  questions  or  fundamental  principles.  .  .  .  The 
remarkable  thing,  the  striking  characterisiic,  was  the  well-balanced  head 
that  he  carried  above  his  shoulders.  He  had  no  eccentricities,  he  had  no 
pet  virtue,  no  one  little  hobby,  no  one  special  excellence  which  he  always 
aired  and  rang  changes  on.  Nay,  he  was  a  broad-minded  man  ;  he  had 
many  windows  to  his  mind  ;  he  took  in  light  from  every  quarter,  and  thus 
could  write  and  did  write  truthfully,  charmingly,  profitably,  on  all  questions 
that  engaged  the  interest  or  concerned  the  conduct  of  human  life.  .  .  . 
It  is  a  great  thing  to  live  seventy  three  years  in  this  world  and  thoroughly 
earn  one's  grave,  and  leave  a  record  without  a  stain  and  a  character  and 
career  that  make  the  whole  country  debtor  to  the  dead.* 

Such  was  he  who  is  gone,  as  memorialized  by  a  distinguished  friend  and 
latest  pastor.  And  in  recollecting  those  in  the  family  line  of  whom  the 
writer  has  spoken  to-night,  he  also  recalls  the  pride  and  veneration  with 
which  Dr.  Prime  was  himself  accustomed  to  allude  to  them,  and  the  quiet 
pilgrimages  he  used  to  make  to  Old  Huntington,  to,  as  it  were,  feel  a  new 
thrill  of  kinship  in  standing  beside  the  resting-place  of  the  old  Revolution- 
ary preacher  and  poet,  his  great-grandfather  and  grandfather.     And  when 

*  Rev.  Dr.  John  R.  Paxton  :  Funeral  Address,  July  22,  1S35. 


2o8  Pruyn  Family — American  Brafich.  [July, 

also  is  reviewed  the  busy  career  of  a  man  so  honored  by  all  sorts  and  con- 
ditions of  men,  I  myself  cannot  but  hear  Dr.  Prime's  voice  once  more,  as 
he  seemed  to  sum  up  his  genealogical  interest  and  sentiments  on  a  winter 
evening  years  ago — leaning  forward  in  his  great  chair  and  exclaiming,  as 
if  forgetful  that  he  was  not  alone,  "  Ah,  after  all,  it  is  not  a  question 
whether  our  ancestors  do  credit  to  us  ;  but  whether  a  man  does  credit  to 
his  ancestors." 


PRUYN  FAMILY— AMERICAN  BRANCH. 


By  John  V.  L.  Pruyn,  Jr. 


(Continued  from  vol.  xv.,  p.  103,  of  The  Record.) 


(200)  Francis  Pruyn,  b.  Nov.  2,  1816,  bp.  by  the  Rev.  John  Me- 
lancthon  Bradford,  son  of  (108)  Casparus  F.  Pruyn  and  Anne  Hewson. 
Is  a  civil  engineer  by  profession.  During  the  War  of  the  Rebellion  he  was 
an  officer  in  the  army,  servmg  in  the  One  Hundred  and  Thirteenth  Regi- 
ment Infantry  of  New  York  State.  He  was  commissioned  as  Captain  in 
this  regiment  Sept.  8,  1862,  taking  rank  as  such  from  Aug.  13,  1862.  This 
regiment  became  the  Seventh  N.  Y.  Heavy  Artillery,  the  date  of  transfer 
being  Dec.  19,  1862.  On  Jan.  23,  1864,  he  was  commissioned  Major,  tak- 
ing rank  from  Jan.  16,  1864.  On  Jan.  i,  1865,  he  received  an  honorable 
discharge.  The  regiment  was  present  at  the  battles  of  Spottsylvania, 
North  Anna,  Tolopotomoy,  Coal  Harbor,  Petersburg,  Strawberry  Plains, 
Deep  Bottom,  and  Ream's  Station,  and' performed  some  hard  service,  of 
which  the  records  in  the  Adjutant-General's  office  bear  witness. 

Major  Pruyn,  who  until  recently  lived  on  his  farm  at  Loudonville,  near 
Albany,  but  who  is  now  living  in  Canada,  m.  Oct.  11,  1844,  Isabella  Kirk, 
b.  Sept.  30,  1822,  dau.  of  Andrew  Kirk  and  Marilla  Bartholomew,  of  Al- 
bany, and  has  issue  : 

298.  Francis,  b.  in  Albany,  Sept.  15,  1845  !  '"•  Sept.  24,  1879, 
Margaret  Louisa  Quackenboss  ;  no  children  living. 

299.  Andrew  Kirk,  b.  Oct.  31,  1847  ;  m.  March  2  7,  1872,  Isabella 
Margaret  McEwan,  b.  March  24,  1851,  dau.  of  John  McEwan 
and  Agnes  Gordon  Lauder,  both  born  in  Scotland,  but  now 
residing  in  Albany.  Andrew  Kirk  has  issue  :  (i.)  John  Mc- 
Ewan, b.  Jan.  18,  1877  ;  (ii.)  Francis  McEwan,  b.  June  5, 
1879  ;  (iii.)  William  McEwan,  b.  Jan.  5,  1882  ;  d.  Nov-  22, 
1882. 


Charles  Van  Zandt,  of  Albany,  b.  Oct.  3,  1818  ;  d.  Oct.  2,  1881  ; 
m.  May  23,  1844,  (202)  Cornelia  Pruyn,  b.  Dec.  5,  1820,  d.  April  24, 
1864,  dau.  of  (108)  Casparus  F.  Pruyn  and  Anne  Hewson. 

At  the  time  of  his  death,  and  for  many  years  previous  thereto,  Mr.  Van 
Zandt  was  the  agent  of  the  Van  Rensselaer  estate.  For  seventeen  years 
he  was  Superintendent  of  the  Sunday-school  of  the  North  Dutch   Church, 


1 886.]  Pruyn  Family — American  Branch.  209 

and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  an  elder  of  that  churcli.  By  his  marriage 
with  Miss  Pruyn  he  had,  with  other  children,  all  deceased,  whose  names 
and  dates  the  compiler  has  been  unable  to  obtain  : 

Charles  Eugene,  b.  May  24,  1847  ;  now  living  in  Albany. 

Anne  Hewson,  b.  Nov.  11,  1849  ;  deceased. 

Ella,  b.  Nov.  25,  185 1  ;  living. 

William  ;  living. 
Mr.  Van  Zandt   m.  secondly,  about    1873,  Miss   Tyler,  dau.  of  Oscar 
Tyler,  late  Sheriff  of  Albany  County. 

204. 

James  C.  Bell,  agent  for  W.  P.  Van  Rensselaer  estate,  Albany, 
b.  April  12,  1819,  son  of  Joseph  Bell  (b.  in  Rhode  Island)  and  Sarah 
Winne  (of  Watervliet),  of  Albany  ;  m.  Jan.  16,  1845,  (204)  Alida  Pruyn, 
b,  Alarch  9,  1825,  dau.  of  (ro8)  Casparus  F.  Pruyn  and  Anne  Hewson, 
and  has  had  issue  : 

Annie  Hewson,  b.  Nov.  2,  1845. 

James   C,  b.  Aug.  17,  1848  ;  d.   Jan.    29,  1885  ;  m.  June  7,  1882, 
Anna  Viletta  Tallcott,  dau.  of  Daniel   Whiting  Tallcott   and 
Viletta    Hulsapple,    and   left  issue  :    (i.)  James    C,    b.   Nov. 
24,  1883  ;   (ii.)   Roy  Whiting,  b.  Feb.  16,  1885. 
Frederic  Henry,  b.    Aug.    25,    185 1  ;  m.   Oct.   11,   1882,  Mary 
Elizabeth  Prichard,   b.   in  Twin  Lewis  County,  N.  Y.,  dau.  of 
John  E.  Prichard  and   Mary  Jones,  of  Albany,  and  has  issue  : 
Henry  Winne,  b.  Sept.  30,  1885, 
Mary  Pruyn,  b.  July  6,  1S57. 
Alice,  b.  Nov.  2,  1859. 

205. 

(205)  William  Fryer  Pruyn,  of  Albany,  b.  Feb.  28,  1S27,  now 
deceased,  son  of  (108)  Casparus  F.  Pruyn  and  Anne  Hewson  ;  m.  Feb. 
13,  1849,  Gertrude  Dunbar  Visscher,  b.  Aug.  21,  1826,  dau.  of  (225) 
Harmen  Visscher  and  Ann  M.  Chapman  (see  Talcotfs  N.  Y.  and  New 
England  Families).  Harmen  Visscher  was  a  son  of  (213)  Johannes  B. 
Visscher  and  Geertruy  Dunbar,  sister  of  Gen.  Robert  Dunbar  and  of 
Cornelia  Dunbar,  wife  of  (59)  Francis  C.  Pruyn.  Mrs.  Pruyn  resides  in 
Albany.     By  this  marriage  there  was  issue  ; 

300.  Anne  Chapman,  b.  Nov.  9,  1849  ;  d.  April  24,  185^. 

301.  William,  b.  April  5,  1853  5  ^-  Feb.  22,  1881. 

302.  Susan  Evertsen,  b.  April  18,  1855  ;  d.  Dec.  3,  1858. 

207, 

(207)  Augustus  Pruyn,  of  Albany,  b.  Oct.  23,  1831,  son  of  (108) 
Casparus  F.  Pruyn  and  Anne  Hewson,  is  a  civil  engineer  by  profession 
but  is  not  now  actively  engaged  in  work.  During  the  civil  war  he  was 
an  officer  in  the  army,  being  appointed  Adjutant  of  the  Eleventh  Regi- 
ment, "Scott's  900,"  New  York  Cavalry,  in  Sept.,  1861.  In  March, 
1862,  he  became  Captain  of  Company  H,  same  regiment,  and  in  April, 
Major.  Commissions,  however,  were  not  issued  to  any  officers  in  this  regi- 
ment until  some  time  in  1863,  as  the  Colonel  in  command  would  not  accept 
State  commissions,  claiming   that  the  regiment  was  United  States  troops. 


210  Pruy?i  Family — American  Branch.  [July) 

In  the  autumn  of  1862,  Major  Pruyn  resigned  from  the  Eleventh  Regi- 
ment, New  York  Cavalry,  to  accept  a  commission  as  Major  in  the  Fourth 
Regiment,  New  York  Cavalry,  and  was  so  commissioned  on  Jan.  30,  1863, 
taking  rank  from  Jan.  28th.  On  May  25,  1863,  he  was  promoted  to  be 
Lieutenant-Colonel,  ranking  as  such  from  April  23d.  His  commission, 
however,  did  not  reach  him  until  the  morning  of  June  9th,  on  which  date 
he  was  in  command  of  the  regiment  in  battle  at  Beverly  Ford,  or  Brandy 
Station  battle.  In  the  cavalry  battles  of  June  17th,  i8th,  19th,  20th  and 
2 1st,  he  was  in  command  of  the  regiment,  the  colonel  having  been  pre- 
viously taken  prisoner.  He  also  commanded  the  regiment  at  Gettysburg 
and  in  all  the  eighteen  engagements  up  to  the  latter  part  of  Dec,  1863, 
including  that  of  Mine  Run,  after  which  he  resigned.  (From  records  in  the 
office  of  the  Adjutant-General,  Albany,  and  from  memoranda  furnished  by 
Mr.  Pruyn.) 

Mr.  Pruyn  was  married  Sept.  19,  1866,  by  the  Rev.  Rufus  W.  Clark, 
D.D.,  in  the  North  Dutch  Church,  Albany,  to  (251)  Catalina  Ten  Eyck, 
b.  Jan.  24,1840,  dau.  of  (194)  Herman  Ten  Eyck  and  Eliza  Bogart.  Her- 
man Ten  Eyck  was  a  son  of  (126)  Harmanus  Ten  Eyck  and  Margaret 
Bleecker,  dau.  of  Hendrick  Bleecker,  Jr.,  andCatalyntje  Cuyler  (see  "Tal- 
cott's  New  York  and  New  England  Families  ").  By  this  marriage  there 
has  been  issue  : 

303.  Margaret  Ten  Eyck,  b.  in  Albany,  Jan.  2,  1868. 

304.  Augustus,  b.  in   Newark,   N.  J.,  April   22,    1869  ;  d.  July  r, 
1870. 

305.  Eliza  Ten  Eyck,  b.  in  Newark,  N.  J.,  July  27,  1870. 

.  306,  Montgomery  Rochester,  b.  in  Newark,  July  29,  1873  5  ^i- 
July  16,  1874. 
307.  Foster,  b.  in  Newark,  Oct.  5,  1875. 

208. 

Montgomery  Rochester,  now  of  Cincinnati,  b.  Aug.  24,  1832,  son 
of  Thomas  Hart  Rochester  and  Phebe  Elizabeth  Cuming;  m.  Jan.  15, 
1858,  (208)  Mary  Hewson  Pruyn,  b.  April  13,  1834,  dau.  of  (108)  Cas- 
parus  F.  Pruyn  and  Anne  Hewson.  Thomas  Hart  Rochester  was  a  son 
of  Nathaniel  Rochester  and  Sophia  Beatty  Nathaniel  Rochester,  son 
of  John  Rochester,  was  born  Feb.  21,  1752,  in  Cople  Parish,  Westmore- 
land County,  Virginia.  He  held  an  unusual  number  of  important  public 
positions  in  North  Carolina,  Maryland,  and  New  York,  to  which  latter 
State  he  moved  in  1810,  He,  with  others,  owned  lands  in  the  *'  Genesee 
country,"  and  between  1815  and  1818  laid  out  the  town  of  Rochester, 
which  was  named  after  him,  and  is  now  a  prosperous  city.  (See  "Early  His- 
tory of  the  Rochester  Family  in  America,"  by  Nathaniel  Rochester.  Buf- 
falo :  Matthews,  Northrup  &  Co.,  1882.) 

Montgomery  Rochester  has  issue  : 

Montgomery  Hewson,  b.  Jan.  6,  i860. 


(211)  Francis  Saltus  Pruyn,  b.  March  2,  1835,  son  of  (125)  Lansing 
Pruyn  and  Anna  Mary  Saltus  ;  m.  Aug.  6,  1862,  Charlotte  Cooper  Nott, 
b.  May  6,  1837,  dau.  of  Benjamin  Nott  and  Elizabeth  Cooper,  and  has  had 
issue  : 

308.   Elizabeth  Cooper,  b.  June  15,  1868. 


1 886.]  Priiyti  Family — American  Branch.  211 

309.  Anna  Lansing,  b.  Nov.  6,  1869;  d.  June  30,  1870. 

310.  Francis  Lansing,  b.  Oct.  4,  1872. 

Francis  Saltus  Pruyn  and  family  live  in  Albany,  where  he  is  engaged 
in  the  insurance  business. 

Benjamin  Nott,  the  father  of  Mrs.  Pruyn,  was  the  youngest  son  of  the 
Rev.  Eliphalet  Nott  (the  distinguished  President  of  Union  College)  and  Sally 
Benedict,  his  first  wife,  and  was  born  in  Albany,  Dec.  6,  1803.  He  stud- 
ied at  Union  College  and  was  afterward  admitted  to  the  Bar,  and  became 
in  time,  a  judge  of  the  old  Court  of  Common  Pleas,  of  Albany  County. 
He  was  a  man  of  scholarly  attainments,  of  genial  disposition,  and  of  a 
rarely  pure  and  lovely  character.  His  wife,  Elizabeth  Cooper,  b.  in  Al- 
bany, June  28,  1807,  was  the  dau.  of  Dr.  Charles  de  Kay  Cooper  and  was 
a  woman  of  much  character.     They  had  eleven  children. 

Isaac  Henry  Vrooman,  of  Albany,  born  May  17,  1829,  son  of  Peter 
Vrooman   and   Margaret   Ann   Ten   Eyck,  of  Schenectady;  m.  March  3, 
1875,  (212)   Anna   Mary   Saltus   Pruyn,  b.  March   10,  1838,  dau.  of  (125) 
Lansing  Pruyn  and  Anna  Mary  Saltus  ;  and  has  issue  : 
Isaac  Henry,  b.  Feb.  11,  1876. 
Anna  Mary,  b.  Dec.  3,  1879. 

214. 
(See  189.) 

249. 

Robert  Porter  Haswell,  of  Hoosick,  N.  Y.,  b.  July  17,  1849,  son 
of  Robert  Haswell  and  Caroline  Ketchum  Hewitt,  of  Hoosac,  N.  Y.;  m. 
Dec.  26,  1870,  (249)  Delia  Amanda  Pruyn,  b.  Aug.  12,  1847,  dau.  of  (147) 
William  Norton  Pruyn  and  Delia  Amanda  Wright,  and  has  issue  : 

Mary  Amanda,  b.  Sept.  30,  187 1. 

Robert  Ashton,  b.  Dec.  25,  1874. 

Ralph,  b.  Feb.  14,  1878. 

Helen  Mar,  b.  Jan.  12,  1880. 

Julia  Pruyn,  b.  May  19,  1882. 

250. 

(250)  Norton  Pruyn,  formerly  of  Albany,  now  of  Schuyler,  Neb.,  b.  July 
22,  1849,  son  of  (147)  William  Norton  Pruyn  and  Delia  Amanda  Wright  ; 
m.  May  31,  1877,  Lillie  Kate  Hadden,  b.  Sept.  26,  1852,  dau.  of  Avery 
S.  Hadden  and  Mary  Chapman  Hitchcock,  of  Durham,  N.  Y.     Issue  : 

311.  Allen  Hadden,  b.  Feb.  22,  1878. 

312.  William  Norton,  b.  Feb.  25,  1879. 

313.  Leland,  b.  June  2,  1882. 

'  251. 

(251)  Gilbert  Wright  Pruyn,  of  Sandisfield,  Berkshire  County,  Mass., 
b.  Dec.  3,  1850,  son  of  (147)  William  Norton  Pruyn  and  Delia  Amanda 
Wright  ;  m.  Oct.  i,  1872,  Adaline  Priscilla  Robinson,  b.  March  22,  1852, 
dau.  of  George  Robinson  and  Emeline  Hesler,  of  North  Bennington,  Vt., 
and  has  issue  : 

314.  Clifford,  b.  Sept.  17,  1873. 


212  Pncyn  Family — American  Branch.  \}^y-> 


252. 

(252)  Henry  Samuel  Pruyn,  of  Hoosac,  Rensselaer  County,  N.  Y,,  b. 
Dec.  27,  1852,  son  of  (147)  William  Norton  Pruyn  and  Delia  Amanda  Wright; 
m.  April  15,  1881,  Emily  Case  Herrington,  b.  Dec.  4,  1863,  dau.  of  John 
Wright  Herrington  and  Emily  Case,  of  Hoosac,  Rensselaer  County,  N.  Y. 
Issue  : 

315.  David  Herrington,  b.  Feb.  3,  1882. 

258. 

(258)  Larmon  Pratt  Pruyn,  of  Omaha,  Neb.,  b.  Sept.  9,  1849,  son  of 
(148)  Abram  Norton  Pruyn  and  Rachel  Maria  Larmon  ;  m.  Oct.  28,  1872, 
Helen  Josephine  Fowler,  b.  Oct.  27,  1848,  dau.  of  B.  F.  Fowler  and 
Louisa  Rich,  of  Cambridge,  N.  Y.     Issue  : 

316.  Charles  Fowler,  b.  Aug.  4,  1874. 

317.  Minnie  Irene,  b.  Feb,  4,  1878  ;  d.  April  5,  1881. 

318.  Bertha  Louisa,  b.  May  14,  1880  ;  d.  May  5,  1881. 

319.  Jennie  Louisa,  b.  Jan.  7,  1884. 

259. 

(259)  Charles  Wesley  Pruyn,  of  Omaha,  Neb.,  b.  Oct.  15,  1852,  son  of 
(148)  tAbram  Norton  Pruyn  and  Rachel  Maria  Larmon  ;  ni.  Dec.  9,  1878, 
Annie  Knox  Strong,  b.  June  30,  1856,  dau.  of  Edwin  F.  Strong  and  Mary 
Harmon,  of  Seneca  Falls,  N.  Y.      Issue  : 

320.  Edwin  Larmon,  b.  March  17,  1880. 

267. 

James  Young  Merritt,  of  Meicer  County,  111.,  b.  Jan.  5,  1828,  son  of 
Ephraim  Johnson  Merritt  and  Margaret  Trindle,  of  Centreville,  Ind.;  m. 
Dec.  25,  1857,  (267)  Mary  Pruyn,  b.  Nov.  4,  1838,  dau.  of  (157)  Walter 
Van  Vechten  Pruyn  and  Sarah  Nancy  Kibbey,  and  has  issue  : 

Minnie,  b.  Feb.  5,  1859. 

Effy,  b.  Feb.  26,  1863. 

Fannie,  b.  March  15,  1866. 

Bessie,  b.  Jan.  14,  1868. 

Arthur  James,  b.  Dec.  4,  1870. 

Raymond  Bigelow,  b.  Feb.  8,  1874. 

Walter  Pruyn,  b.  Nov.  20,  1879. 

269. 

John    Abnor  Gilmore,   of  Paola.  Kan.,   b.  April   27,   1840,  son  of 
Ephraim  Gilmore  and  Julia  Ann  Denison  ;  m.  March  22,  1865,  (269)  Alice 
Pruyn,  b.  March  10,    1844,  d.  June  29,  1867,  dau.   of  (157)  Walter  Van 
Vechten  Pruyn  and  Sarah  Nancy  Kibbey,  and  had  issue  : 
Charles  Pruyn,  b.  June  28,  1867. 

270. 

(270)  William  Shanon  Pruyn,  b.  June  18, 1847,  son  of  (157)  Walter  Van 
Vechten  Pruyn  and  Sarah  Nancy  Kibbey  ;  in.  Feb.  24,  1875,  Clara  Kirk- 


i886.]  Fniyn  Family — Atnerican  Branch.  213 

ham  Field,  b.  Sept.  3,  1853,  d.  May  2,  1880;  dau.  of  Elisha  Case  Field 
and  Savona  Ann  Bartlett,  of  Galesburg,  III,  and  had  issue  : 

321.  Kate,  b.  Dec.  3,  1876  ;  d.  April  24,  1880. 

He  m.  secondly  Sept.  15,  1881,  Orinda  Vi  Emerson,  b.  Dec.  21,  1852, 
dau.  of  Oliver  Perry  Emerson  and  Sarah  Kelly,  of  Keithsburg,  111.,  and 
has  issue  : 

322.  Murray,  b.  Dec.  30,  1882. 

271. 

William  Henry  Barbour,  of  Manitou,  Col.,  b.  Dec.  5,  1848  ;  m. 
March  10,  1874,  (271)  Edith  Pruyn,  b.  Aug.  26,  1849;  dau.  of  (157)  Wal- 
ter Van  Vechten  Pruyn  and  Sarah  Nancy  Kibbey,  and  has  issue  : 

Percy  Pruyn,  b.  March  15,  1876. 

Frederick  Plummer,  b.  Feb.  5,  1881. 

272. 

Nathan  Noble,  of  Canton,  Dak.,  b.  June  17,  185 1,  son  of  David 
Johnson  Noble  and  Sarah  Rader,  of  New  Boston,  111.;  m.  Sept.  17,  1872, 
(272)  Alida  Pruyn,  b.  Nov.  7,  1851,  dau.  of  (157)  Walter  Van  Vechten 
Pruyn  and  Sarah  Nancy  Kibbey,  and  has  issue  : 

Willie,  b.  Sept.  10,  1873. 

David  Walter,  b.  Jan.  15,  1875. 

Hattie,  b.  Jan.  3,  1877. 

Edith,  b,  Jan.  3,  1879. 

274, 

Silas  Dement  Willits,  of  New  Boston,  111.,  b.  Feb.  26,  1856,  son  of 
William  WiUits  and  Mary  Alyea  ;  m.  Nov.  26,  1880,  (274)  Carrie  Pruyn, 
b.  April  7,  1 86 1,  dau.  of  (157)  Walter  Van  Vechten  Pruyn  and  Sarah 
Nancy  Kibbey,  and  has  issue  : 

Percy  Pruyn,  b.  Aug.  2,  1882. 

277. 

See  164.  Joseph  Marion  West,  son  of  Samuel  West  and  Mary  Hen- 
derson, of  Rockport,  Atchison  County,  Mo.;  m.  June  7,  1878,  (277)  Ma- 
rietta Pruyn,  b.  Nov.  24,  1856,  dau.  of  (104)  Isaac  Newton  Pruyn  and 
Maria  Ann  Swatman. 

278. 

Paul  Elliott  Temple,  formerly  of  Langdon,  Mo.,  more  recently  of 
Highland  City  and  Iowa  Point,  Doniphan  County,  Kan.,  b.  Dec.  5, 
1852,  son  of  Paul  Lafayette  Temple  and  Julia  Elizabeth  Harrington  ;  m. 
Feb.  7,  1877,  (278)  Augusta  Eliza  Pruyn,  b.  May  10,  1858,  dau.  of  (164) 
Isaac  Newton  Pruyn  and  Maria  Ann  Swatman,  and  has  issue  : 

Archie  Pruyn,  b.  Sept.  24,  1878. 

Lee  Elliott,  b.  Oct.  25,  1880  ;  d.  July  17,  1882. 

Ruby  Maria,  b.  March  7,  1883. 

287. 

(287)  Frederic  Fort  Pruyn,  of  Glen's  Falls,  N.  Y.,  son  of  (173)  Daniel 
Fort  Pruyn  and  Tallota  Sharp,  b.  Nov.  12,  1850  ;  m.  April  14,  1874,  Alice 


214  Pruy?i  Family — American  Branch,  [July. 

Genevieve  Cool,  b.  April  14,  1852,  dau.  of  Hiram  Moore  Cool  and  Cynthia 
Ann  Eldred,  of  Glen's  Falls,  N.  Y.,  and  has  issue  : 

323.  A  SON,  b.  and  d.  April  14,  1875. 

324.  Frederick  Eldred,  b,  June  13,  1876. 

325.  Blanche  Gertrude,  b.  June  21,  1877. 

326.  William  Cool,  b.  July  13,  1880. 


Darwin  Hurd,  b.  Feb.  28,  1850,  son  of  William  Lay  Hurd  and  Betsy 
Ann  Sherilian,  of  Eagle  Bridge,  N.  Y.;  m.  Aug.  21,  1875,  (288)  Ella  Frances 
Pruyn,  b.  Aug.  18,  1856,  dau.  of  (173)  Daniel  Fort  Pruyn  and  Tallota 
Sharp,  and  has  issue  : 

Alice  Frances,  b.  May  17,  1876  ;  d.  Aug.  14,  1877. 

Mary  Jessie,  b.  April  4,  1878. 

289. 

(289)  Jesse  Adelbert  Pruyn,  son  of  (i  73)  Daniel  Fort  Pruyn  and  Tal- 
lota Sharp,  b.  Feb.  1 1,  1858  ;  m.  Dec.  22,  1880,  Nettie  May  Durfee,  b.  Nov. 
17,  i860,  dau.  of  Abraham  Durfee  and  Louisa  Thankful  Burch,  of  South 
Cambridge,  Washington  County,  N.  Y. 

295. 

(295)  Robert  Clarence  Pruyn,  b.  Oct.  23,  1S47,  son  of  the  late  (199) 
Robert  Hewson  Pruyn  and  Jane  Ann  Lansing,  graduated  at  Rutgers  Col- 
lege, class  of  1869.  He  has  since  resided  in  Albany,  where  he  is  largely 
interested  in  business  enterprises,  and  is  now  President  of  the  National 
Commercial  Bank,  succeeding  the  Hon.  Daniel  Manning,  Secretary  of  the 
Treasury,  who  in  turn  succeeded  Mr.  Pruyn's  father,  (199)  Hon.  Robert 
H.  Pruyn,  as  president  of  the  bank. 

Mr.  Pruyn  was  one  of  the  commission  appointed  to  erect  the  new  City 
Hall  at  Albany.  He  is  also  a  vestryman  of  St.  Peter's  Church.  He  m. 
Oct.  22,  1873,  Anna  Martha  Williams,  b.  May  7,  1853,  cl^^-  of  Chauncey 
Pratt  Williams,  President  of  the  National  Exchange  Bank  of  Albany,  and 
Martha  Hough,  and  has  issue  : 

327.  Edward  Lansing,  b.  Nov.  23,  1874. 

328.  Ruth  Williams,  b.  Oct.  3,  1877. 

329.  Robert  Dunbar,  b.  Oct.  11,  1879. 

330.  Frederic  Stanley,  b.  July  5,  1881. 

297. 
(297)  Charles  Lansing  Pruyn,  b.  Dec.  2,  1S52,  son  of  (199)  Robert 
Hewson  Pruyn  and  Jane  Ann  Lansing,  graduated  at  Rutgers  College,  Scien- 
tific Department,  Class  of  187 1.  He  has  since  resided  in  Albany,  where 
he  is  engaged  in  various  business  enterprises.  He  m.  Oct.  11,  1877, 
Elizabeth  Atwood  McClintock,  b.  Oct.  31,  1853,  d.  Dec.  20,  1884,  dau. 
of  William  Trimble  McClintock  and  Elizabeth  Mary  Atwood,  of  Chilli- 
cothe,  O.,  and  has  had  issue  : 

331.  Elizabeth  McClintock,  b.  June  14,  1878. 

332.  Jane  Anne  Lansing,  b.  Dec.  15,  1880, 

333.  Sarah  McClintock,  b.  Nov.  17,  1884;  d.  July  22,  1885. 


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[886.]  Henry  Thayer  Drowne.  21 5 


HENRY   THAYER   DROWNE 

Fourth  President  of  the  New  York  Genealogical  and  Biographical 

Society. 


By  Henry  R.  Stiles,  A.M.,  M.D. 


With  a  Portrait. 

Henry  Thayer  Drowne  was  born  at  Woodstock,  Conn,,  March  25, 
1822,  and  is  a  lineal  descendant  of  Leonard  Drowne  (b.  1646),  who  came 
from  the  West  of  England  to  America  soon  after  the  accession  of  Charles 
II.;  married,  1679-80,  Elizabeth  Abbot,  of  Portsmouth,  N.  H.  ;  settled 
at  Sturgeon's  Creek,  and  carried  on  ship-building  at  Kittery,  Me.,  until  the 
disturbances  of  tlie  French  and  Indian  wars,  in  1692,  forced  him  to  remove 
to  Boston,  Mass.,  where  he  died  October  31,  1729,  and  was  buried  in 
Copp's  Hill  Burying  Ground. 

His  eldest  son,  Solomon,  born  1681,  ship-builder  at  Bristol,  R.  I.,  mar- 
ried Esther  Jones,  and  had  twelve  children,  the  eldest  of  whom,  Solomon 
second,  born  1706,  well  known  as  a  merchant  and  statesman  in  Providence, 
R.  I.,  died  in  1780,  leaving  three  children,  the  second  of  whom,  Dr.  Solo- 
mon Drowne,  third,  born  1753,  was  a  somewhat  remarkable  man.  Gradu- 
ating at  Rhode  Island  College  (now  Brown  University)  in  1773,  he  studied 
medicine  and  received  degrees  from  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  and 
Dartmouth  College;  served  as  surgeon  in  the  Revolutionary  army  (1776- 
80)  ;  enjoyed  the  personal  friendship  and  esteem  of  Lafayette,  Rocham- 
beau,  and  the  officers  and  medical  staff  of  the  French  army  in  Rhode 
Island,  and  was  entrusted  with  the  care  of  their  invalid  soldiers  when  the 
allied  forces  left  for  home.  At  the  close  of  the  war,  after  a  tour  in  Eng- 
land, Holland,  Belgium,  and  France,  visiting  hospitals,  medical  schools, 
etc.,  and  becoming  acquainted  at  Paris  with  Franklin,  Jefferson,  and  other 
distinguished  men,  he  resumed  the  practice  of  his  profession  at  Providence, 
R.  I.  ;  but  in  1788  went  to  Ohio,  where  he  resided  for  a  year,  and  was 
present  at  the  treaties  at  Fort  Harmar,  in  1789,  with  Corn  Planter  and 
other  Indian  chiefs.  Impaired  health  led  to  his  spending  several  years  in 
West  Virginia  and  in  Pennsylvania,  but,  in  1802,  he  settled  again  in  his 
native  State,  at  Foster,  where  he  remained  until  his  death  in  1834,  engaged 
in  practice  and  attention  to  his  botanic  garden,  scientific,  classical,  and  lit- 
erary studies.  He  filled  many  public  offices,  professorial,  etc.,  and  deliv- 
ered many  lectures,  orations,  and  addresses  of  decided  merit,  including  a 
eulogy  on  Washington,  February  22,  1800. 

His  third  son,  Henry  Bernardin  Drowne  (born  in  1799),  who  with  his 
sisters  founded  the  Fruit  Hill  Classical  Institute  at  North  Providence,  R. 
I.,  in  1835,  possessed  many  of  his  father's  tastes,  was  early  identified  (as 
his  father  had  been)  with  the  Rhode  Island  Society  for  the  Encouragement  of 
Domestic  Industry,  and  with  agricultural  and  mechanical  pursuits,  and  was 
noted  for  his  financial  ability,  probity,  and  unostentatious  spirit  of  benevo- 


2l6  Henry   Thayer  JDrowne.  [July, 

lence.  He  married  Julia  Ann  Stafford,  of  Warwick,  R.  I.,  and  of  their 
seven  children  the  subject  of  our  sketch  was  the  eldest. 

In  addition  to  a  careful  home  nurture  he  enjoyed,  as  the  eldest  grand- 
son of  Dr.  Solomon  Drowne,  the  inestimable  advantage  of  passing  several 
years  of  his  boyhood  with  that  gentleman  at  his  home,  "  Mt.  Hygeia," 
where,  as  well  as  Fruit  Hill  Classical  Institute,  founded  by  his  own  father 
and  aunts,  he  acquired  that  taste  for  classical,  historical,  and  antiquarian 
literature  which  has  since  distinguished  him. 

In  March,  1841,  he  became  a  resident  of  New  York  City,  being  a  clerk 
for  several  years,  especially  in  the  dry  goods  commission  house  of  C.  Fiske 
Harris,  and  in  1851  he  married  Sarah  Rhodes,  daughter  of  George  Carpen- 
ter and  Phebe  Rhodes  Arnold,  of  Providence.  June  21,  1855,  he  was  ap- 
pointed Secretary  of  the  old  National  Fire  Insurance  Company,  a  position 
which  he  filled  with  untiring  energy  and  ability  until.  May  ii,  1869,  he  was 
chosen  as  a  Director  and  elected  its  President,  which  well-merited  ofSce  he 
now  holds. 

As  might  be  expected  from  such  inherited  tastes,  Mr.  Drowne  has  been 
largely  identified,  by  membership  and  personal  activities,  with  very  many 
of  our  leading  historical,  scientific,  and  patriotic  societies  and  institutions. 
In  November,  1847,  he  was  elected  a  Resident  Member  of  the  New  York 
Historical  Society  ;  in  1866,  Life  Member  of  the  New  England  Society  of 
New  York  City;  in  1863,  a  Member  of  the  American  Ethnological  So- 
ciety, of  which  for  many  years  past  he  has  been  Secretary  of  the  Executive 
Committee  and  Librarian;  in  1875  he  became  a  Member  of  this  Society 
(New  York  Genealogical  and  Biographical)  ;  in  1877  its  Second  Vice-Presi- 
dent;  in  1878  its  First  Vice-President ;  in  1880  a  Member  of  its  Board  of 
Trustees,  and  from  1881  to  1885  its  President,  enjoying,  by  successive  an- 
nual re-elections,  the  longest  term  of  service  which  any  incumbent  of  that 
office  has  thus  far  attained.  He  is  also  a  Fellow  of  the  Royal  Historical 
Society  of  London,  England ;  of  the  American  Geographical  Society  ;  and 
Corresponding  Member  of  the  New  England  Historical  and  Genealogical 
Society,  the  Historical  Societies  of  Rhode  Island,  Pennsylvania,  Wiscon- 
sin, Georgia,  Vermont,  Chicago ;  the  American  Historical  and  Numismat- 
ical  Society  of  Philadelphia,  the  Kansas  Historical  Society,  the  Prince  So- 
ciety, of  Boston,  and  others. 

On  July  4,  1878,  by  right  of  his  grandfather.  Dr.  Solomon  Drowne,  Sur- 
geon in  the  Continental  Army,  he  became  a  member  of  the  Rhode  Island 
Society  of  the  Cincinnati,  and  is  now  its  Senior  Alternate  to  the  General 
Society  of  the  Cincinnati,  which  holds  its  next  Triennial  at  Newport,  R. 
I.,  in  1887.  In  1861  he  was  one  of  the  originators,  with  Rev.  Dr.  Francis 
Vinton,  George  Wm.  Curtis  and  others,  of  the  "Sons  of  Rhode  Island  in 
New  York,"  an  organization  designed  to  forward  the  interests  of  Rhode  Isl- 
and troops  then  in  the  field  in  the  defence  of  the  Union,  by  concentration 
of  effort  among  the  natives  of  that  State  then  resident  in  New  York.  Of 
this  Society  he  was  the  latest  Secretary  ;  and,  in  1886,  as  was  natural  from 
his  deep  interest  in  every  movement  having  for  its  object  the  perpetuation 
of  the  memories  of  the  Revolutionary  period,  he  identified  himself  by  mem- 
bership with  the  "  Sons  of  the  Revolution,"  in  this  city. 

Although  Mr.  Drowne,  with  characteristic  modesty,  has  not  committed 
himself  to  any  considerable  literary  work,  yet  his  contributions  to  Ameri- 
can biography  and  genealogy  have  been  ample  witness  to  his  abilities  in 
this  line.     Painstaking  and  minute  in  detail,  they  leave  nothing  to  be  de- 


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sired,  except  the  wish  that  he  would  more  freely  venture  into  the  field  of 
authorship.     His  published  efforts,  thus  far,  have  been  : 

1.  The  Notes,  Addenda,  and  Genealogical  Memoranda  to  "  The  Jour- 
nal of  a  Cruise,  in  the  Fall  of  1780,"  by  his  grandfather,  Dr.  Solomon 
Drowne,  privately  printed  (8vo,  two  sizes,  pp.  28),  New  York,  1872,  by 
Masters  (,'harles  L.  Moreau  and  Henry  Russell  Drowne,  on  an  amateur 
press. 

2.  "Genealogy  of  the  Family  of  Solomon  Drowne,  M.D.,  of  Rhode 
Island,  with  Notices  of  his  Ancestors,  1646-1879."  Providence,  R.  I., 
1879.     8vo,  pp.  16. 

3.  "Memorial  Sketch  of  Stephen  Whitney  Phoenix,  of  Ne^^  York." 
8vo,  pp.  9.  Read  before  the  Rhode  Island  Historical  Society,  July  3,  1883  ; 
also  printed  in  the  Newport  Historical  Magazine,  July,  1883. 

4.  [In  connection  with  General  George  S.  Greene  and  Benjamin 
Greene  Arnold,  Esq.,  of  New  York]  the  "  Drowne  Branches  from  William 
Arnold  and  Zachary  Rhodes  [and  of  Tillinghast,  Smith,  Brown,  Stafford, 
Bartlett],  of  Pawtuxet,  R.  I.,"  for  the  Arnold  Genealogy. 

5.  Letters  of  Dr.  Solomon  Drowne,  with  Annotations,  furnished  for  the 
"New  York  Letters  in  the  Revolution."  Privately  printed,  1861,  by  the 
New  York  Mercantile  Library  Association. 

6.  l>etters  and  Notes  to  Dawson's  Edition,  1865,  of  "  Dring's  Recol- 
lections of  the  Old  Jersey  Prison  Ship,"  in  which  his  great-uncle.  Captain 
William  Drowne,  was  for  a  long  period  a  prisoner. 

7.  [With  Colonel  John  Ward,  Mrs.  Eliza  Hall  Ward,  and  Dr.  H.  R. 
Stiles]  the  "  Genealogy  of  the  Ward  P'amily,"  as  printed  in  the  Rhode 
Island  Historical  Society  Collections,  vol.  vi.,  1867. 

8.  Several  Biographical  Sketches  for  the  "  American  Portrait  Gallery," 
published  by  Mr.  J.  C-  Buttre,  1877-1881. 

The  late  Rev.  Dr.  Francis  Vinton,  in  his  oration  on  the  "  Annals  of 
Rhode  Island  and  Providence  Plantations,"  delivered,  in  1863,  before  the 
Sons  of  Rhode  Island  in  New  York  City,  makes  special  acknowledgment 
to  Mr.  Drowne's  "patient  and  loving  interest  in  whatever  concerns  the  his- 
tory and  welfare  of  Rhode  Island,"  as  having  *' so  enriched  the  pamphlet 
by  his  exact  erudition,  with  reference  to  authentic  sources,  as  to  entitle 
these  'Annals'  to  the  dignity  of  history  and  to  the  confidence  of  the  future 
scholai."  His  "constant  readiness  to  promote  every  historical  inquiry"  is 
also  particularly  noticed  by  Dawson  ("Dring's  Recollections") ;  and  Rev. 
Edwin  M.  Stone,  in  the  preface  to  his  exceedingly  interesting  book  "  Our 
French  Allies,"  avows  his  indebtedness  to  Mr.  Drowne  as  one  "whose 
knowledge  of  Rhode  Island  history  is  unsurpassed."  Not  alone  among 
his  American  friends  and  associates,  but  by  those  of  like  tastes  in  Great 
Britain,  Mr.  Drowne  is  frequently  called  upon  to  assist  in  the  procuring 
of  information  or  the  verification  of  facts  ;  and,  it  is  needless  to  add,  is 
never  found  wanting.  It  may  be  truly  said  of  him  that  he  never  is 
happier  than  when  rendering  to  others  (and  frequently  entire  strangers) 
those  little  services  which,  however  slight  he  affects  to  think  them,  are  of 
such  inestimable  value  to  the  literary  worker  and  scholar. 

Mr.  Drowne's  religious  affiliations  are  with  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church  (of  which,  it  may  be  remarked,  his  brother.  Rev.  Thomas  Stafford 
Drowne,  D.D.,  is  Secretary  of  the  Diocese  of  Long  Island)  ;  he  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Church  of  the  Transfiguration  ("The  Little  Church  Around  the 
Corner  "),  of  which  Rev.  George  H.  Houghton,  D.D.,  is  rector. 


2i8  Records  of  the  Society  of  Friends  of  Westbury,  L.  I.  [July, 

It  is  almost  needless  to  add  that  Mr.  Browne's  home  reflects  his  tastes 
and  pursuits.  His  small,  but  choice,  library  is  rich  especially  in  the  Classics, 
Fine  Arts,  History,  and  Biography  ;  Angling,  Poetry,  Ethnology,  Genealogy, 
and  Theology.  He  is  also,  in  a  quiet  way,  an  enthusiastic  illustrator  of 
books,  and  among  the  volumes  which  he  has  enriched  by  his  taste  and 
perseverance,  we  may  enumerate  Appleton's  "Picturesque  America;" 
"Ethica;"  "New  York  Letters  During  the  American  Revolution  ;  "  "Sons 
of  Rhode  Island  in  New  York  ; "  Grinsted's  "Relics  of  Genius ;"  Duy- 
ckinck's  "  Irvingiana ;  "  "  Freneau's  Poems;"  "The  Browne  Journal;" 
Morton's  "  Types  of  Mankind  ;"  Knight's  "  Shakespeare,"  etc.  Engravings, 
especially  in  the  line  of  portraiture,  have  a  special  charm  for  Mr.  Browne, 
and  his  collection  of  Washington  portraits,  and  of  Louis  XVI.,  as  well  as 
of  the  English,  French,  and  American  officers  of  our  Revolutionary  period, 
is  extensive  and  valuable.  Among  autographs,  we  may  note  interesting 
letters  addressed  to  his  grandfather,  Br.  Solomon  Browne,  by  the  French 
officers  of  the  allied  forces  in  the  Revolution,  of  Granville  Sharp,,  Br. 
Jonathan  Arnold,  Br.  Thacher,  Hon.  Theodore  Foster,  Br.  Samuel  L. 
Mitchill,  President  James  Manning,  and  others. 

In  conclusion — although  the  freedom  of  the  biographic  pen  is  some- 
what limited  by  the  fact  of  his  presence  among  us — it  may  be  permissible 
to  say  of  Mr.  Browne,  that  his  delicate  sense  of  courtesy — springing  from 
an  inherited  quality  of  refined  tastes  and  genuine  kindness  of  heart — and 
his  unselfish  spirit  of  helpfulness,  have  contributed  largely,  though  most 
unostentatiously,  to  the  welfare  of  every  association — social,  literary,  and 
religious — with  which  he  has  been  connected  ;  and  has  drawn  around 
him  a  wide  circle  of  friends,  whose  sincere  appreciation  and  respect  reflect 
upon  his  daily  life  that  atniosphere  in  which  every  thoughtful  scholar  de- 
lights to  dwell. 

RECORBS    OF   THE    SOCIETY    OF    FRIENBS    OF   WEST- 
BURY,  L.  I. 


Communicated  by  Benjamin  D.  Hicks,  Esq. 

(Continued  from  Vol.  xvi.  p.  175  of  The  Record.) 
BIRTHS  : 

Children  of  Silas  and  Ann  Willis.     He  born  4th  of  ist   mo  1715.      She 
(being  d'  of  Henry  Pearsall)  born  4th  of  2d  mo  1722  : 
Jordan  born  15  of  2  mo  1742. 

A  daughter  born  8  of  11  mo  1744,   died  27  of  11  mo  1744. 
Phebe  born  25  of  3  mo  1745. 

Children  of  Samuel  and  Mary  Titus  of  Westbury  : 

Stephen  born  24  of  12  mo  1727. 

Elizabeth  born  t6  of  8  mo  1729. 

Mary  born  7  of  6  mo  1732. 

Samuel  born  4  of  9  mo  1 734. 

Richard  born  r 6  of  11  mo  1736. 

Phebe  born  15  of  11  mo  1739. 

Jemima  born  16  of  i  mo  1742. 

Children  of  Henry  Cock  of  Oysterbay  : 
Thomas  born  25  of  11  mo  1738. 


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Sarah  born  14  of  9  mo  1741. 
Daniel  born  6  of  i  mo  1743. 
Hannah  born  15  of  4  mo  1745. 
Mary  born  11  of  8  mo  1747. 
Henry  born  15  of  3  mo  1749. 
Anne  born  23  of  7  mo  1751. 
Abraham  born  11  of  4  mo  1755. 

Children  of  Wait  and  Mary  Powell  {married  15th  of  i  mo  1724)  '- 

Jane  born  22  of  2  mo  1725. 

Mary  born  31  of  1 1  mo  1727. 

Anna  born  22  of  7  mo  1730. 

Wait  born  30  of  4  mo  1733. 

Jemima  born  31  of  i  mo  1736. 

Esther  born  23  of  11  mo  1738. 

Sarah  born  23  of  8  mo  1745. 

Children  of  David  and  Clemont  Whitson.      He  born  nth  of  7th  1701. 
She  (being  d'  of  John  Powell)  born  27th  of  12th  mo  1709  : 
Ruth  born  23  of  11  mo  1732. 
Mary  born  5  of  1 1  mo  1 736. 
Amey  born  18  of  5  mo  1739. 
Solomon  born  9  of  2  mo  1741. 
David  born  22  of  7  mo  1743. 
Clemont  born  i  of  5  mo  1751. 

Children  of  Obediah  and  Mary  Seaman  : 
Walter  born  22  of  9  mo  1755. 
Phila  born  26  of  3  mo  1759. 
James  born  26  of  12  mo  1761. 
Thomas  born  18  of  8  mo  1764. 
Richard  born  2  of  8  mo  1767. 

Children  of  Benjamin  and  Hannah  Hawxhurst.     He  born  31st  of  6th 
mo  1720.     She  born  i7lh  of  loth  mo  1721  : 
Mary  born  22  of  9  mo  1747. 
Sarah  born  4  of  6  mo  1 749. 
Martha  born  5  of  2  mo  1752. 
Hannah  born  25  of  3  mo  1754. 

Children  of  John  (2d)  and  Deborah  Whitson  :  - 

Mary  born  26  of  7  mo  1745. 
Deborah  born  26  of  2  mo  1747. 
Elizabeth  born  9  of  i  mo  1749. 
Amos  born  5  of  5  mo  1751. 

Children  of  Adam  and  Sarah  Mott  of  Cow  Neck : 
Elizabeth  born  19  of  7  mo  1756,  died  10  of  4  mo  1782. 
A  daughter  born  28  of  10  mo  1758,  died  31  of  10  mo  1758. 
Lydia  born  24  of  1 1  mo  1759. 
Adam  born  11  of  10  mo  1762, 
Samuel  born  29  of  9  mo  1773. 

Children  of  Joshua  and  Phebe  Powell  : 
Hannah  born  15th  of  loth  mo  1745. 
^Willets  born  nth  of  6th  mo  1747. 


220  Records  of  the  Society  of  Friends  of  Westbury,  L.  I.  [July, 

Phebe  born  19th  of  9th  mo  1749. 
Amos  born  27th  of  4th  mo  1752. 
Joshua  born  15th  of  loth  mo  1754. 
Richard  born  2d  of  nth  mo  1757. 
Benjamin  born  13th  of  8th  mo  1760. 

Children  of  Matthew  and  Ann  Prior.     He  born   6th  of  ist  mo  1729. 
She  (being  widow  of  Silas  Willis)  born  4th  of  2d  mo  1722  : 
Henry  born  i8th  of  9th  mo  1755. 
James  born  23d  of  4th  mo  1757. 

Children  of  Richard  and  Sarah  Alsop  of  Oysterbay  : 

Sarah  born  3d  of  nth  mo  1747. 

Phebe  born  2d  of  loth  mo  1749. 

John  born  27th  of  2d  mo  1753. 

Hannah  born  7th  of  2d  mo  1755,  died  iSth  of  9th  mo  1757. 

Hannah  2d,  born  18th  of  12th  mo  1757. 

Children  of  Nathaniel  and  Mary  Pearsall  of  Cow  neck  : 

Sarah  born  loth  of  5th  mo  1737. 

Joseph  born  loth  of  6th  mo  1740. 

Jane  born  ist  of  8th  mo  1742. 

Thomas  born  13th  of  9th  mo  1744. 

Mary  born  21st  of  ist  mo  1746. 

Hannah  born  5th  of  8th  mo  1749. 

Robert  born  12th  of  3d  mo  1752. 

Children  of  Thomas  and  Hannah  Carpenter  : 
Alsop  born  8th  of  nth  mo  1778. 

Children  of  Daniel  and  Mary  Powell  of  Bethpage  : 

Jacob  born  2d  of  6th  mo  1737. 

Deborah  born  loth  of  loth  mo  1739. 

Margaret  born  nth  of  12th  mo  1743. 

Jonas  born  24th  of  4th  mo  1745. 

Daniel  born  2 2d  of  ist  mo  1749. 

Rachel  born  17th  of  2d  mo  1753. 

Mary  born  29th  of  ist  mo  1755. 

Children  of  Jesse  Willets.     He  born  19th  of  2d  mo  1714  : 
Richard  born  25th  of  4th  mo  1753. 
Martha  born  i6th  of  9th  mo  1755. 

Children  of  John  and  Elizabeth  Willis  of  Oysterbay.  He  born  8th  of 
2d  mo  1734.  She  (being  d'  of  Adam  Mott)  born  31st  of  5th  mo  1733, 
died  13th  of  9th  mo  1783  : 

Adam  born  13th  of  7th  mo  1757,  died  9th  of  3d  mo  1758. 

Samuel  born  7th  of  3d  mo  1759. 

Phebe  born  5th  of  4th  mo  1761.  . 

Children  of  Henry  and  Hannah  Whitson  : 
Mary  born  nth  of  7th  mo  1740. 
Hannah  born  5th  of  7th  mo  1742. 
Henry  born  15th  of  ist  mo  1745. 
Thomas  born  loth  of  loth  mo  1747. 
Kezia  born  17th  of  2d  mo  1753. 


i886.]  Records  of  the  Society  of  Friends  of  Westbury,  L.  I.         22 1 

Children  of  William  and  Elizabeth  Mott  : 

William  born  8th  of  ist  mo  1743. 

Hannah  born  4th  of  6th  mo  1744,  died  15th  of  3d  mo  1750. 

James  born  29th  of  6th  mo  1745. 

Elizabeth  born  5th  of  2d  mo  1747. 

John  born  17th  of  2d  mo  1749,  died  7th  of  3d  mo  1750. 

Samuel  born  i6th  of  12th  mo  1750, 

Hannah  born  i8th  of  4th  mo  1753. 

John  2d  born  24th  of  6th  mo  1755. 

Henry  born  31st  of  5th  mo  1757. 

Richard  born  20th  of  8th  mo  1759. 

Joseph  born  nth  of  ist  mo  1762. 

Benjamin  born  19th  of  3d  mo  1765. 

Children  of  Samuel  2d  and  Ann  Underhill  : 

Joseph  born  i  of  8  mo  1 738. 

Samuel  born  26  of  5  mo  1740. 

Robert  born  i  of  10  mo  1742. 

Mary  born  31  of  i  mo  1745. 

Andrew  born  1 7  of  4  mo  1 749. 

James  born  29  of  8  mo  1751,  died  18  ot  11  mo  1752. 

Thomas  born  18  of  5  mo  1755. 

Hannah  born  10  of  3  mo  1757,  died  12  of  9  mo  1760. 

Children  of  Thomas  and  Hannah  Seaman  of  Westbury.     He  born  2d  of 
nth  mo  1712.     She  born  6th  of  loth  mo  1711,  died  23d  of  7th  mo  17=;^  • 
buneon  born  31  of  8  mo  1743,  died  9  of  2  mo  175 1. 
Gideon  born  5  of  12  mo  1744. 
Ame  born  25  of  12  mo  1746. 
Hannah  born  3  of  8  mo  1749. 
Rachel  born  30  of  3  mo  1752. 
Phebe  born  9  of  5  mo  1755. 

Children  of  Richard  and  Ruth  Willets  of  Jericho  : 

Jacob  born  8  of  8  mo  1 744. 

Mary  born  27  of  6  mo  1746,  died  9  of  5  mo  1751. 

Richard  born  20  of  6  mo  1 748. 

James  born  21  of  2  mo  1751,  died  6  of  4  mo  1752. 

Amos  born  21  of  4  mo  1753. 

Thomas  born  7  of  4  mo  1757,  died  22  of  11  mo  1758. 

Sarah  born  23  of  10  mo  1759. 

Children  of  William  and  Mary  Bedle  :  * 

Mordecai  born  1 1  of  4  mo  1 745. 
Rachel  born  18  of  n  mo  1750. 
Jehiel  born  27  of  7  mo  1755. 

Qi.  Sk'^^'^'!,.''^/^ ?^  ^""^  ^^""^^'  ^^^^1^^^-      He  born  19th  of  2d  mo  i  723. 
She  (bemg  d'  of  John  Powell)  born  17th  of  6th  mo  1725.  ■ 

John  born  3  of  9  mo  1 745. 

Job  born  10  of  7  mo  1748. 

Jacob  born  20  of  n  mo  1750. 

Daniel  born  24  of  5  mo  1753. 

Henry  born  13  of  10  mo  1755. 


222 


Biographical  Sketch  of  Gerlando  Marsiglia.  [J^^ly> 


James  born  i  of  5  mo  1758. 
Thomas  born  12  of  9  mo  1760. 
Phebe  born  i  of  i  mo  1763. 
George  born  14  of  6  mo  1765. 
Samuel  born  10  of  5  mo  1769. 

Children  of  William  Valentine  Jr  of  Hempstead  : 
Peggy  born  i  of  5  mo  1753. 
Rachel  born  13  of  2  mo  1755. 
Mary  born  19  of  8  mo  1757. 

Children  of  Robert  and  Esther  Seaman  : 

Williams  born  22  of  2  mo  1744,  died  22  of  4  mo  1779. 

Children  of  Rowland  and  Ann  Pearsall : 

Jane  born  16  of  7  mo  1749. 

Henry  born  25  of  8  mo  1751. 

Mary  born  30  of  6  mo  1755.  * 

Phebe  born  22  of  3  mo  1757. 

WiUiam  born  12  of  9  mo  1759. 

Amy  born  21  of  10  mo  1761. 

Silas  born  17  of  4  mo  1764. 

Thomas  born  17  of  9  mo  1766. 

Wait  born  17  of  2  mo  1770. 


BIOGRAPHICAL   SKETCH    OF    GERLANDO    MARSIGLIA. 


Gerlando  Marsiglia,  son  of  Antonio  and  Catherina  Romana  Mar- 
siglia, was  born  at  Palermo,  Sicily,  February  18,  1792.  His  father,  Antonio 
Marsiglia,  was  a  native  of  Sicily  ;  his  mother,  Catherina  Romana,  was  a 
lady  of  an  old  Roman  family,  the  name  of  Romana  Catherina  having  been 
handed  down  for  generations. 

At  a  very  early  age,  Gerlando  Marsiglia  showed  remarkable  talent  for 
painting  and  sketching,  and  it  is  said  that,  while  at  a  country  home  in  the 
village  of  Julianna,  Sicily,  he  would  arise  after  others  were  asleep  and  paint 
by  the  light  of  the  moon,  making  his  own  colors  from  berries.  When  old 
enough,  he  was  placed  under  the  tuition  of  Sig.  Pataina,  of  Palermo,  who 
had  the  reputation  of  being  the  Raphael  of  Sicily,  and  who  had  painted 
some  altar-pieces  which  vie  with  many  of  the  renowned  masters.  Through 
the  influence  of  a  nobleman,  a  friend  of  Mr.  Marsiglia's  brother,  Guiseppe 
Marsiglia,  a  priest  of  Palermo,  he  was  admitted  as  a  scholar  to  the  Royal 
Academy  of  Naples,  where  he  applied  himself  to  study,  and  on  one  of  the 
days  upon  which  the  Nobles  visit  the  Academy  and  rewards  are  made,  Ger- 
lando Marsiglia  received  the  highest  honors  for  historical  painting.  On 
March  22,  1810,  he  was  decorated  by  Ferdinando,  King  of  Sardinia,  in  the 
Kingdom  of  the  Two  Sicilies. 

Naples  continued  to  be  his  home,  his  fame  grew,  and  on  June  5,  181 7, 
while  the  King  of  France  was  visiting  the  Royal  Academy  at  Naples,  he 
ordered  that  Gerlando  Marsiglia  should  be  decorated  with  the  Fleur  de  Lis, 
which  was  formally  presented  to  him  on  February  20,  181 7.  The  following 
season  he  went  to  France,  and  was  presented  at  the  court  of  Louis  XVIIL; 
he  became  fond'of  the  French  capital,  and  spent  some  time  there  every  year. 


1 886.]  Biographical  Sketch  of  Gerlando  Marsiglia.  22^ 

In  manners  he  was  very  elegant,  and  generally  admired  by  the  ladies  ; 
by  nature  retiring  and  modest,  but  extremely  impulsive  ;  he  was  very  eccen- 
tric in  dress,  always  wearing  guimps  and  frog  buttons,  which  gave  him  the 
appearance  of  a  military  man.  Among  his  admirers  and  friends  there  was 
a  young  American,  a  lover  of  the  fine  arts,  who  was  then  studying  in  Italy ; 
this  was  a  son  of  Robert  Fulton.  The  two  became  much  attached,  so  that 
Fulton  finally  persuaded  Mr.  Marsiglia  to  visit  America  with  him.'  They 
sailed  together  in  the  spring  of  1824.  Upon  arriving  in  America,  Mr,  Mar- 
siglia was  invited  to  the  house  of  Robert  Fulton  upon  the  Hudson,  where 
he  passed  some  time,  and  by  that  family  was  introduced  into  society.  It 
had  been  his  intention  soon  to  return  to  his  native  land  ;  but,  receiving  the 
tidings  of  the  death  of  his  mother,  to  whom  he  was  greatly  attached,  his  love 
for  home  diminished,  and  he  became  more  interested  in  this  country,  though 
not  abandoning  the  idea  of  ultimately  returning  to  Italy,  Amoncr  his  friends 
in  America  was  Major  Popham,  whose  portrait  he  painted,  and  gave  it  a 
prominent  place  in  a  Gallery  of  Fine  Arts,  which  he  opened  with  a  gentle- 
man by  the  name  of  Clark  on  the  corner  of  Reade  Street  and  Broadway, 
in  the  old  Lafarge  building.  This  collection  consisted  of  rare  paintings  • 
his  word  as  to  the  authorship  was  relied  upon,  and  he  speculated  in  paint- 
nigs,  but  applied  himself  very  little  to  work,  although  he  painted  a  number 
of  historical  pieces.  Among  them  was  the  "Landing  of  Columbus,"  "Queen 
Artemisia  at  the  Tomb  of  her  Husband,"  "Count  Ugolino  in  Prison," 
"Julius  Csesar  and  the  Roman  Senate,"  "  Queen  Esther  before  Ahasuerus/' 
"  Telemachus  on  the  Island  of  Calypso,"  and  a  "  Sketch  of  the  Deluge."' 

While  upon  a  visit  to  Washington  he  copied  the  portrait  of  Baron  Steu- 
ben from  the  original,  painted  by  Stewart,  of  London.  A  fire  in  the  ro- 
tunda  of  the  Capitol  destroyed  the  original.  The  copy  painted  by  Mar- 
siglia was  sold  to  the  City  of  New  York,  purchased  by  Mayor  Woodhull  in 
1850,  and  is  now  to  be  seen  in  the  Mayor's  Room  in  City  Hall,  New  York 
The  portrait  of  Major  Popham,  painted  by  Mr.  Marsiglia,  'was  sold  to 
the  Cincinnati  Society,  of  which  Major  Popham  was  the  President, 

Mr,  Marsiglia  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  National  Academy  of  De- 
sign, of  New  York  ;  was  an  Academician,  and  took  an  active  part  to  promote 
Its  interest.  About  the  year  1832  he  formed  the  acquaintance  of  a  very 
estimable  and  accomplished  lady,  who,  although  past  the  spring  of  life,  was 
still  the  artist's  ideal  of  beauty.  This  was  Mrs.  Eliza  H.  Ballentine  Char- 
ruaud,  a  lineal  descendant  of  Sir  George  Carteret,  and  in  the  year  1837 
they  were  married.  Two  children  were  born  to  them,  a  son  and  a  daugh- 
ter;  the  son  bore  the  name  of  his  father  and  paternal  grandfather— Ger- 
lando Antonio— and  the  daughter  that  of  her  paternal  grandmother— Cath- 
arina  Romana.  About  the  year  1849  Mr.  Marsiglia's  health  began  to 
decline,  and  on  September  8,  1850,  he  passed  away,  at  the  age  of  fifty- 
seven,  leaving  a  widow  and  one  daughter.  He  was  interred  at  Calvary 
Cemetery,  L.  I.,  and  over  his  remains  a  simple  monument  was  erected 
bearing  the  palette  and  brushes,  with  the  following  inscription  :  ' 

"  Friends  of  Sicily,  drop  a  tear, 
A  son  of  genius  sleepeth  here. 
God  called  him  to  a  realm  so  fair, 
Neither  sorrow  nor  death  can  enter  there." 
Mr.  Marsiglia's  collection  of  paintings  were  sold  by  Henry  H   Leeds 
December  5,  1850,  at  No.  8  Wall  Street.     Among  them  was  a  "Madonna 
and   Child,"   considered  by  Mr.  Marsiglia  to  be  a   Correggio  :  also  the 
"  Holy  Family,"  by  Rafaelle. 


2  24  Records  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  in  New  York.        [July? 


RECORDS  OF    THE    REFORMED   DUTCH  CHURCH    IN   THE 
CITY  OF  NEW  YORK.— Baptisms. 

(Continued  from  Vol.  XVII,,  p.  io8,  of  The  Record.) 


A*  1713. 

[355] 
Septenib.  4. 


6. 


13- 
16. 


20. 


24. 


27. 


30- 


OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

Richard  Care,  Maria  Jan. 

Cokever. 
John  Thome,   Mary-  George. 

tje  Brestede. 
William  Hunt,  Geer-  William. 

tru5>d  Van  Schoon- 

hoven. 
Jacobus  Kip,  Catha-  Catharina. 

lina  de  Hart. 

Wiliem  Van  de  Wa-  Hendrikus. 

ter,  Aefje  Ringo. 
Timothe  Tilly,  Eliza-  Maria. 

beth  Burger. 
Hendrik   Ver   Duyn,  Cornelus. 

Sara  Stefenson. 
Thomas  Sickels,  Jan-  Marretje. 

netje  Brevoort. 
Johannes  Van  der  Johannes. 

Heul,  Jannetje  Ro- 

sevelt. 
Wessel  Wessels,  Ma-  Frans. 

ria  Ten  Yk. 
Rlithgert  Waldrom,  Johannes. 

Debora  Pel. 
Philip   Menthorne,  Annatje. 

Hillegont  Webber. 
Richard    Treuman,  Pieter. 

Cornelia  Haring. 
Hendrik  Franse,  An-  Jan. 

na  Maria  Sippe. 
Jan'   Pieterse,    Geer-  Christina. 

truy  Hattem. 
Isaac  Be'dlo,  Susanna  Hermina. 

Bradjor. 
John    Macpheadris,  Susanna. 

Helena  Jonson. 
Jacobus  Moene,  Grie-  Margrietje. 

tje  Dircks. 
Johannes  Van  Gelder,  Gerret. 

Neeltje  Onkelbag. 
Cornelus  de  Peyster,  Margreta. 

Cornelia     Dissing- 

ton. 
Pieter    Couwenhove,  Belitje. 

Wyntje  Ten  Yk. 
Francis    Silvester,  Ann. 

Ytje  Bosch. 5 


GETUYGEN. 

Jan  de  Lamontagne,  He- 
lena Bunsing. 

Symons  Brestede,  Mar- 
retje^arcks. 

Jeames  Waters,  Maria 
Jemmeson. 

Tho.  Car,  Abrh:V.  Vlek, 

Margrietje    Moiirits, 

Jn^ 
Tobias   Stoutenburg, 

Wyntje  Byvank. 
Gerret  Hassing,  EHzabeth 

Burger,  Se'. 
Charles    Leroux,    Maria 

Ver  Duyn. 
Wiliem    Rome,    Jannetje 

Lanoy. 
Jan   Rosevelt,   Maria  de 

Mell. 

Frans    Wessels,    Geertje 

Wessels. 
Vredrik  Willemse,  Mary- 

tje  Waldrom. 
Jaques  Fonteyn,  Anneke 

Webbers. 
Theunis  &    \  r\'-  \ 

Vroiiwtje  f  ^ 
Johannes  Van  de  Water, 

Baefje,  s:  h^  vrouw. 
Barnardus  Smith,  Annatje 

Colevelt,  s:  h^  v"^. 
Abraliam  Bradjor,  Geesje, 

ft.  v.  v.  Dan'  Liewis. 
Johannes )  t  l 

Anna    [Johnson. 

Samuel  Staats,  Catharina, 
s:  h^  v^ 

Gerret  Onkelbag,  Aefje 
V.  Gelder. 

Philip  Van  Cortlant,  Eli- 
zabeth Dissington. 

Frans    V.    Couwenhove, 

Mary  tje  Mesier. 

Pieter  &       )  -d       i 
o .  \  Bosch. 

Susanna 


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225 


A*  1713. 

[356] 
Septemb. 


Octob:  4. 


II. 


14. 


18. 


25- 


28. 


OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

Jan  A 1 1  e  n,  Tryntj  e  Jan. 
30.       Wybrants. 

Abraham  V.  Deiirse,  Catharina. 

Lucretia  Bogardiis. 
Johannes    Hooglant,  Catlyntje. 

Sen',  Jenneke  An- 

dries. 
Wouter  Hyer,  Anna-  Petrus. 

tje  Blom. 
Jan   V.  Hoorn,  Joris  Jan. 

soon,  Magdaleentje 

Carstens. 
Jan  Wilkes,  Margrie-  Cornelia. 

tje  Dow. 
Fredrik  Sebring,  Ma-  Catharina. 

rytje  Provoost. 


GETUYGEN. 

Jan  Oin,  Dina  Michielse. 

Evert  &  Grietje  Pels. 

Abrah.  Lefferts,  Saartje 
Hooglant,  s.  h,  v. 

Jan  Hyer,  Hester  Blom. 

David  Cosaar,  Styntje 
Joris,  s.  h.  V. 

Barent  de  Kleyn,  Corne- 
lia V.  Varik,  s:  h:  v'. 

David  Provoost,  jont, 
zoon,  Catharina  Pro- 
voost, 

Pieter  Wesselse,  Antje 
VVoertman. 


vHendrikus  Coerte,  Elizabeth. 
Elizabeth   de  Rie- 
mer. 
Fredrik  Bolt,  Alida  Anna  Maria.  Pieter   V.    Dyk,    Rachel 


Vryman. 
Volkert  Heermans,  Egbert. 

Margrietje     Ecke- 

son. 
Dirck  Egbertse,  Mar-  Egbert. 

grietje  Teller. 
J  o  z  e  p  h    Waldrom,  Daniel. 

Antje  Woeder. 


Leroux. 
M  i  c  h  i  e  1    Somerendyk, 
Saartje  Heermans. 

Isaac    de    Riemer,    Se", 

Aefje  Bratt. 
Fredrik    Willemse,    Sara 

Waldrom. 


Aarnout  Schermer-  Willemyntje.  Aernout  Fiele, Willempje 

hoorn,    Mary  tje 

Beekman. 
Adries    Myer,   Geert  Vroiiwtje. 

Wessels. 
Sybrant  Brouwer,  Sa-  Cornelus. 

ra  Webbers. 
David    Janse,    Antje  Johannes. 

Croesvelt. 
Ide  Myer,  Anna  Ra-  Elizabeth. 

vesteyn. 
Johannes  Brouwer,  Elizabeth. 

Mary  tje  Lam. 
Philip  Van  Cortlant,  Abraham. 

Catharina  de  Peys- 

ter. 


James  Resow,  Maria  Maria. 

Countes. 
Elias  Brevoort,  Grie-  Grietje. 

tje  Sam  mans. 

*  The  parents  'themselves. 


V.  Hoesen. 

Johannes  Myer,  Elizabeth 

Garb  rants. 
Cornelus  Webber,  Claasje 

Qiiackenbosch. 
Jan  Pouwelse,  Antje  Van 

Oorstrand. 
Johannes    Myer,    Elsje 

Duyking. 

Jacob    &   )  ^ 
■'    ^,       •     >■  Coning. 
Claasje  \  ° 

Jacobus  V.  Cortlant,  Ca- 
tharina de  Pevster,  h: 
V.  Van  Coll.  Abrah:  de 
Peyster. 

De  Ouders  selve.* 


Thomas    |  S  a  m  m  a  n  s  , 
Rachel  \  jonge  lieden.f 

t  Voung  people. 


2  26         Records  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  in  New  York. 


[July, 


A*  1713. 
Novenib.  i. 


[357] 


15. 


18. 


25- 


29. 


Decemb.  4. 


OUDERS. 

Anthony  Kip,  Maria 

Byvank. 
Gerret  Burger,  Saar- 

tje  Martens. 

Daniel  de  Voor,  En- 
geltje  CorneKis. 

Hendrik  Buys,  Wil- 
lempje  Oostrum. 

Abraham  Van  Gelder, 
Catlyntje  Post. 

WiUiam  Gowin,  Mar- 
gareta  Daniels, 

John  Ellen,  Johanna 
Haldron. 

John  Home,  Rachel 
Webber. 

Hendrik  Kuyler,  Ma- 
ria Jacobz. 

Cornel  us  Romme, 
Maria  Kierstede. 

Nicolaas  Daly,  Eliza- 
beth Krigier. 

Lammert  Van  Dyk, 
Marretje  Hooglant. 

Steven  Callebost,  Eli- 
zabeth Marchel. 

Elias  Ellesse,  Sara 
Peers. 

Christoffel  Beekman, 
Maria  de  Lanoy. 

Jurian  Wei,  Aaltje 
Brouwer. 

John  Smith,  Rachel 
Beekman. 

Cornelus  Clopper, 
Senior, 

Aefje  Luykas. 
Jan    Stoutenburg, 

Henrica  Duyking. 
Willem    Backet,   Pie- 

ternella  V.  de  Wa- 
ter. 
Matheiis  Bensen,  Ca- 

tharina  Provoost. 
Johannes  de  Foreest, 

Catharina    Raven- 

steyn. 


Belitje. 
Eva. 

David. 
Magtelt. 
Jacobus. 
Jannetje. 

Maria. 

John. 

Sara. 

I>ukas. 

Cornelus. 

Adriaan. 

Rachel. 

Elizabeth. 

Adriaan. 

Eericus. 

Helena. 


GETUYGEN. 

Johannes  Byvank,  Saratje 

Kip. 
Thomas    Scurlock,    Eva 

Burger,  s.  hs:  v'. 

Jan     Merynes,     Barentje 

Sammens. 
Pieter  &      | 


Jat\netje  j 


Buys. 


Eliza- 
beth. 

Luy- 
kas. 

Gerard, 


a      V 

11 


Francyntje. 

Simson. 
Hendrikus. 


Johannes  V.  Gelder,  Se", 
Aefje  Van  Gelder. 

Cornelus      )  p^^^^.i^. 
Jannetje  \ 

Abrah.  Bradjor,  Marretje 
V.  d""  "Spiegel. 

David  janse,  Grietje 
Webbers. 

Dom:  Petrus  van  Dries- 
sen,  Eva  Kuyler,  s.  h. 
V.  r. 

Jacobtis  Kierstede,  Ari- 
aantje  Elsewarth. 

Symon  Krigier,  Margrie- 
tje  Kool. 

Abrah.  Lefferts,  Annatje 
Hooglant,  Wed^ 

William  Homan,  Eliza- 
beth Slow. 

Cornelus  Woertendyk, 
Rachel  Peers. 

Abraham  de  Lanoy,  Ma- 
ria Duyking. 

Jobannes      \ 
Marretje  J       ■' 

Denys  Woertman,  Ytje 
Beekman. 

Steven  Ver  Brakel,  Dina 
Kloppers,  s:  h"^  v'. 

Cornelus  Klopper,  Jun', 
Jannetje  Van  Sane. 

Gerrardus  Duyking,  Ma- 
ria Duyking, 

Francoa  Bocket,  Pieter- 
nella  V.  de  Water. 

Johannes  Kerfbyl,  Eliza- 
beth Bensen. 

Hendrikus  de  Foreest, 
Saratje  Van  Dam. 


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A'  1713. 


[358] 
Decemb. 


16. 


27. 


A°  1714. 
January  i. 
3- 


24. 


OUDERS.  KINUERS. 

Falentyn  Preslar,  Hans  Jlirie. 
Anna  Christina 
Franse. 

Hendrik  Claase  Kiiy-  Elizabeth. 

per,   Jannetje   Ver 

Kerk. 
Steve  Richard,  Maria  Hendrikus. 

Van  Briig. 
Arie  Koning,  Rachel  Rachel. 
.    Peek. 
Philip  Blakledge,  VVil-  Annatje. 

lempje  Sluys. 
Fredrik    Wi  11  em  se,  Sara. 

Marytje  VValdrom. 
Johannes    Peek,  Jacob. 

Tryntje  Helhake. 
John    Lasly,    Rachel  Marretje. 

Woertendyk. 
Johannes    Thomasse,  Engeltje. 

Marretje  V.  Duur- 

se. 
Dirk  Van  Houte,  An-  Helmech. 

netje  (xarbrantz. 
^  Anthony  de  Mel,  Ma-  Sara. 

ria  Provoost. 
Corn  el  us  VVoerten- Elizabeth. 

d  y  k,    J  e  n  n  e  k  e 

Peers, 
Johannes      Henejon,  Hendrik. 

Margreta  Daly. 
Gerret  Hassing,   En-  Barnardus. 

geltje  Burgers. 
Samuel  Provoost,  Ma-  John. 

ria  Sprat. 
James   Marke,   Sara  Barnardus. 

Fiele. 
John  Smith,  Judith  Dirk. 

Outman. 
Robberd   Flossie,  Ca-  Robbin. 

tharina  Dircx. 
Barnardus  Bo u ting,  Johannes. 

Susanna  Pieters. 

VVessel    Van    Norde,  Hester. 

Jaquemyntje   Cou- 

wenhove. 
Samiiel  FCip,  Margrie-  Albert. 

tje  Rykman. 
Jacob  Risch,  Eva  Johannes. 

Mous. 


GETUYGEN. 

Hans  Jiiria  Pechor,  Eliza- 
beth Roseboom. 


Jan    Ver    Kerk,    Geertje 
Claase  Kuyper. 

Jacobus    Bayard,    Hille- 
gond  de  Kay,  s:  h:  v®. 

Gysbert       )  V  a  n     I  ni  - 
Jannetje  )       burg. 

Pieter   Stoutenburg,   Wil- 
lempje  Uytenbogert. 

Jan  de  Lamontagne,  An- 
natje V.  Deurse. 

Coenraat  Ten  Yk,  Catha- 
rina  Boele. 

Cornelus     ) 
Marretje 

Andries    Abran^se,    Jan- 
netje Thomas. 


Woertendyk. 


Gerret  V.  Wagene,  Mar- 
retje Garbrants. 

Joseph  Hodvverd,  Sara  de 
Mill. 

Fredrik  Woertendyk, 
Rachel  Peers. 

Barent  Kool,  Hester 

Blom. 
David     Aartse,     Heyltje 

Hassing. 
John    Sprat,    Catharina 

Provoost,   David*"  h.  v'. 
Willem    Bogert,    Susanna 

Coely. 
Johannes     Outman,     Jn', 

Anna  D'harietten. 
William  & 

Saartje 
Godfry    Molhern,    Hans 

Jacob   Boes,  Alagdale- 

na  Smith. 
Samuel  Pel,  Marytje  Me- 

sier. 

Albert  Rykman,  Jacobus 
Ki[),  Catharina  Bries. 

Jan  Coning,  Elizabeth 
Moulinti. 


Mathiks. 


228         Records  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  in  New  York. 


[July, 


A"  1 714. 


[359] 
January  27. 


February  3. 


d'  7. 


14. 


17- 


21. 


OUDERS. 

Isaac  V.  Deiirse,  An- 
netje  Waldrom. 

Anthony  Ham,  Eli- 
zabeth Meyer. 

Isaac  de  Riemer,  Jn', 
Antje  Woertman. 

WiUiam  Lendith,  Wil- 
lempje  Uytenbo- 
gert. 

Samuel  Lee,  Antje 
Myer, 

John  Wood,  Susanna 
Chiirchel. 

Burger  David,  Ma- 
rytje  Romme. 

Jacob  Swaan,  Dirck- 
je. 

Stephantis  V.  Cort- 
lant,  Catharina 
Staats. 

Mathys  Laning,  Cor- 
nelia Hendrikse. 

Pieter  V,  Ranst,  Sa- 
ra Kierstede. 

Willem  Rome,  Anne- 
tje  Wessels. 

Johan  Philip  Stays, 
Anna  Catharina 
Banamacha. 

Jacobus  V.  Varik, 
Anna  Maria  Bre- 
stede. 

Harmanus  Myer,  He- 
lena Post. 

Jacob  Hassing,  Cor- 
nelia Dykman. 

William  Farbosch, 
Maria  Palding. 

Abraham  Aalsteyn, 
Marretje  Janse. 

Frans  Garbrantse, 
Elizabeth  Wessels. 

Harmanus  Ruthgers, 
Catharina  Myers. 


KINDERS. 

Annatje. 

Cornelia, 
Marretje. 
Thomas. 

Samuel. 

Isaac. 

Marytje. 

Annatje. 

Johanna. 

Hendricus. 
Corneliis. 
Loiirens. 
Hans  Michel. 

Johannes. 

Harmanus. 

Johannes. 

Catharina. 

Abraham. 

Petriis. 

Catharina. 


GETUYGEN. 

Abraham   V.    Deurse    & 
Annatje,  s.  h^  v'. 

Johannes  Myer,  Cornelia 

Timmer. 
Isaac    Gouverne<ir,    Sara 

Staats,  s.  h.  v. 
Mar  tin  us  Crigier,  Jan- 

netje  V.  Dyk,  s:  h=  v'. 

Joris  E 1  z  e  w  a  r  t  h,  Sara 

Main. 
Thorn:  Ell,  Abrate  Brad- 

jor,  Anna  Chiirchel. 
Frans  Van  Dyk,   Pieter- 

nella  Elzewarth. 
Jacob   Ten  Yk,    Neeltje 

Hardenberg. 
M""  Samuel  Staats,  Geer- 

truy  V.  Kortlant. 

Antony  Bj-vank,  Teuntje, 
s:  h^  V'. 

'Johan  Michel  Stays,  Mag- 
dalena  Zicks. 


Jan    & 
Sara 


Van  Varik. 


d'24. 


Jan  Nieuwkerke,  Jen-  Jannetje. 

neke  Brestede. 
William  Walton,  Ma-  Abraham. 

ria  Santfort. 


Marte  Myer,  Immetje  V. 

Dyk,  s.  h.  V. 
Dirk  Dykman,  Willemyn- 

tje  Pieters. 
Johannes     Hardenbroek, 

Ellener  Hichkok. 
Johannes  Romme,  Antje, 

s:  h^  v'. 
Willem     Romen,    Aaltje 

Wessels. 
Anthony  Rutgers,  Catha- 
rina Rlitgers,  s:  moe- 

der. 
Bout  Wessels e,  Maria 

Brestede. 
Abrate    Van   Vlek,  Sytje 

Santfoort. 


1 886. J         Records  of  tlie  Reformed  Dutch  Church  iti  Netv  York. 
A°  1714. 


229 


[360J 
Meert  5. 


14. 


28. 
April  10. 


14. 


25. 

28. 
May  2. 


OUDERS.  KINHERS. 

Johannes  Ten  Yk,  Hendrik. 

Wyntje  Aretse. 
Jacobtis  Beermans,  Geertje. 

Marretje  Bries. 
Cornelus    Meserol,  Jan. 

Jannetje  Horns. 


Jan  Hibon,  Antje 

Stymets. 
Jacob   Preyer,   Lea 

Beekman. 
Fredrik  Woertendyk, 

Dievertje  Quacken- 

bos. 
Jacob  Marius  Groen, 

Maria  Salisbury. 
Simson     Benson,     J', 

Maria  Boke. 
Isaac  Brat,  Dievertje 

Wessels. 
J  o  c  h  e  ni  R  o  e  1  o  f  s  e, 

Jannetje  de  Lange. 
Willem  Teller,  Maria 

Kennef. 
Daniel  Liewes,  Gees- 

je  Brad j  or. 
Hendrikus  V.  Gelder, 

F  e  ni  ni  e  t  j  e    Wy- 

nants. 
Dirk   Bensen,   Jn", 

Lvsbeth  Rethlif. 


Tryntje. 


John  Balads,  Alida  Elizabeth. 

Baly. 
Abraham    Barsjow,  Jacobus. 

Geertje  Bres. 
Johannes    Elsewarth,  Robberd. 

Sara  Blakwell. 
Samuel  Jacobs,  Aefje  Samuel. 

Woertendyk. 

Engel  Hoft',  Maria  Willem. 

Willems. 
Charles  Filipz,  Maria  Thomas. 

Ten  Broek. 
John  Chissel,  Janne-  Tryntje. 

tje  Buys. 
Jacobus  Mouritz,  Eli-  Elzebeth. 

zabeth  Stevens. 
Gidion  Kastang,  Ca-  Isaac. 

tharina  Cokever. 


GETUYGEN. 

Jiirian    Witvelt,   Johanna 

Ten  Yk. 
Benjamin  de  Snyer,  Ytje, 

s.  h.  v'. 
Jan  Prys,  Maretje,  s.  h^ 

v'. 


Geertuy. 

Johannes    Hibon,   Maria 

Narbury. 

Johannes. 

Pieter  Post,  Catharina 

Beekman. 

Reynier. 

Cornelus  Woertendyk, 

Jannetje  Peers. 

Pieter. 

Balthazar  de  Hart,  Alida 

Smith. 

Simson. 

Dirk  Bensen,  Jacomyntje 

Boke. 

Johanna. 

Dirk  Egbertse,  Maria 

Wessels,  huys  v'. 

Rachel. 

Daniel  Indevoor,  Marre- 

tje de  Lange. 

Willem. 

Jeremias  Kennvf,  Rachel 

Teller. 

Wilkeson. 

Thomas  Evins,   Cornelia 

•i , 

Timmer. 

Helena. 

Jan   Poiiwelse,  Geertruyd 

Wynants. 

Egbert  Van  Borssum, 
Elizabeth  Bensing,  s. 
h.  v. 

Margreta  Henneson,  Ba- 
rent  Kool. 

Jacobus  Barsjow,  Catha- 
rina Bras. 

Joris,  Jn'  )  ^.  ^, 

■^   e  \  Elzewarth. 

Sara       j 

Warner    Burger,    Fredrik 

Woertendyk,    Margrie- 

tje  Burgers. 
Gidion  Castang,  Dina 

Cornel{is. 
Jan 

Els 
Hendrik  ^\^,.. 

Aaltje       P"y^- 

Gerardus    Mourits,  Mar- 

grietje  Stevens. 

Jan&  It-,    .    , 

r-i    •  .•      r  Marmus. 
Christma  \ 


Isje    [ 


Ten  Broek. 


230         Records  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  in  New  York.  [J^^ly> 


A'  1714. 


OUDERS. 

KINDERS. 

J 

oseph  Smith, 

Mar- 

Johanna  1 

g 

grieta  Corsen 

Mary-  \ 
tje.        \ 

1 

[361] 

May  16. 


23- 
3°- 

Juny  6. 

13- 
16. 


23- 
27. 


JMy  4. 


Hendrik  Vonk,  Ca- 
tharina  Hegemans. 

Hendrik  Sling,  Mary- 
tje  Franse. 

Francis  Baesly,  Hil- 
letje  Krankheyt. 


Hendrikus. 

Elizabeth. 

Sibouwt. 


Gaspares  Bosch,  Jan-  Jannetje. 

netje  Meeden. 
Hendrik    Bras,   Mar-  Catharina. 

grietje  Helm. 
Jan  Rosevelt,   Heyl-  Hilletje. 

tje  Sjoerte. 

Aarnout   Hendriks,  Hendrik. 

Geertje  Claase. 
Harmanus     Bensing,  Victoor. 

Aaltje  Bickes. 
Johannes  Buys,  Mar-  Rebecka. 

retje  Brouwers. 
Johannes   Turk,   An-  Maria. 

tje    Cornelias  Kuy- 

per. 
Alexander    Fenix,  Hester. 

Hester  "Vian  Vorst. 
Davidt  Kermer,   De-  Hendrikus. 

bora  Berrie. 

Mathys  Buys,    Eliza-  Marretje. 

beth  Arianse. 
Sjoert   Olphertz,  Do-  Hendrik. 

rathe  Greenham. 
Willem  Krom,   Wyn-  Geertje. 

tje  Rosa. 
Corn  el  lis  Klopper,  Andries. 

Jn"",    Catharina 

Greveraad. 
Cornelias  Turk,  Eliza-  PoMus. 

beth  V.  Schaik. 
Cornelias  Rapalje,  Jo-  Titia. 

hanna  Anthonidus. 

Charles    Cromlyn,  Anna. 
Anna  Singlair. 


GETUYGEN. 

Cornelias  Kierstede, 
Marretj  e  Van  der 
Spiegel. 
Martinus  Crigier,  Eli- 
zabeth Kierstede, 
YVed<=. 
Joost    Lynse,    Elizabeth 

Hennejon. 
Thomas  Franse,    Metje 

Jans. 
Sibouwt    Harx,   Marretje 
Krankheyt. 


Justus  Bosch,  Antje 
Smith,  s:  h^:  vrouvv. 

Gerret  Bras  en  Catharina, 
zyn  hi  vrow. 

Jacobus  Rosevelt,  Sara 
Rosevelt,  h.  v.  van 
Nico^  Rosevelt,  Jn'. 

Samlael  Shahaan,  Marre- 
tje Eash. 

Willem  Hyer,  Claasje 
Bickes. 

Hendrik  Buys,  Willempje, 
s:  buys  vrouvv. 

Corneltis  Claase  &  Pou- 
lus  Turk,  Marretje 
Turk. 

Davidt  Cosaar,  Tr\>ntje 
Van  Couwenhove. 

Bartholomeiis  Schaats, 
Christina  Kermer,  s.  h. 
v. 

Dirk  Dykman,  Elizabeth 
de  Groot. 

Cornelias  Clopper,  Se', 
Aaltje  Sjoerts. 

Harmanus  Rutgers,  Ca- 
tharina Meyer,  s.  h.  v"". 

Johannes  Greveraad,  An- 
na Magnight,  Anna 
Greveraad. 

Poulus  Turk,  Aaltje  Van 
Dyk. 

D°™.  Wantsentius  Ant- 
honidus Wichalt,  Fem- 
metje  Bennet. 

John  Cottin,  Wyntje  By- 
vank. 


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A'  1714. 


14. 


18. 


25- 


\z^A 


OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

Gerret   Van    Laar,  Jannetje. 
Jannetje  Streddels. 

Jacob  Franse,  Antje  Casparus. 

Haal. 
Abraham   W  e  n  de  1,  Lucretia. 

Catharina  de  Kay. 
Joris    Dykman,    Cat-  Jannetje. 

Ivntje  Theunis. 
Gerret    Keteltas,  Aaltje. 

Catharina  Van 

Dyk. 
Jan    F  o  rseur,  Eva  Jacob. 

Franse. 
Willem  Brouvver,  Ma-  Catharina. 

rytje  Van  Oort. 


Augustus  I.     Dirk  Koek,  Susanna  Thomas. 
Crigier. 

Jacob  Coning,  Claasje  Isaac. 

Jacobs. 
Abraham  Leffers,  Sa-  EHzabeth. 
ra  Hooglant. 
4.  Gerret  de    Wendel,  Gerrardiis. 

Cornelia  Blank. 
Jacoblis    Mol,    Lidia  Annatje. 
Wenne. 
■  William  Maddix,  Su-  Isaac, 
sanna  Bradjor. 
8.  Abraham  Van  Hoorn,  Davidt. 

Maria  Provoost. 
Elbert  Aartse,  Johan-  Johanna, 
na  Ten  Yk. 
II.  A  n  d  r  i  e  s    Harden-  Christoffel. 

broek,  Femme.tje 
Van  Der  Klyf. 
15.  Barent  de  Boog,  Ra-  Annatje. 

chel  Hoppe. 
22.  Theunis  Van  Woert,  Sara. 

Agnietje   Van    der 
Spiegel. 
25.  Anthony  Caar,  Anne-  Maria, 

tje  Huyke. 
Jacobus    Rosevelt,  Johannes, 
Catharina  Harden- 
Broek. 
29.  Jacobus  de  Kay,  Sara  Elizabeth. 

WiUet. 
Theunis   Van   Vegte.  Sara. 
Antje  Heermans. 


GETUYGEN. 

Jacob  lis  Rosevelt,  Ca- 
tharina Hai;denbroek, 
s.  h.  V. 

Luykas  Pieterse,  Mari,  s: 
h^  V'. 

Capt'.  Charles  Van  Brugh, 
Sara  Wendel. 

Theunis  Idese,  Jannetje 
Dykman. 

Abraham  Keteltas,  Aaltje 
Keteltas,  s:  dogter. 

Gidion  Kastang,  Catha- 
rina Buyls. 

Johannes  Peek,  Antje 
Brouvver. 

S  y  m  o  n     Crigier,    Anna 

Banker,  Wed:  van  Coll. 

J.  de  Peyster. 
Frederik  Woertendyk, 

Dievertje  Quakkenbos. 
Johannes  Hooglant,    Se', 

Abigail  Pieters. 
Jan    Cannon  &    Marj-tje 

Legran,   s.  h.  v. 
Anthony    Iviewis,    Aegje 

Reviers. 
Barnardus    Smith,    Sara 

Bradjor. 
David    Provoost,     Jn"", 

Aefje  Theobles. 
Jurian   Witvelt,    Johanna 

Jemmeson. 
Adolphus    Hardenbroek, 

Sara  Hardenbroek. 

Salomon  Vredriks,  An- 
netje  Brat,  s:  \t  vrouw. 

Hendrikiis  Van  der  Spie- 
gel, Sara  Van  Dam. 

Denys  Verduyn,  Maria  s: 

h^  vroiiw. 
Nicolaas    Rosevelt,     S"", 

Sara  Hardenbroek. 

Jacobus  Bayard  &  Abrah: 
Wendel,  HelenadeKay. 
Ruben  Van  Vegte,   Sara 
Heermans. 


232      Records  of  the  First  a7id  Second  Presbyterian  Chtirches.  [July, 


RECORDS  OF  THE  FIRST  AND  SECOND  PRESBYTERIAN 
CHURCHES  IN  THE  CITY  OF  NEW  YORK.— Births  and 
Baptisms. 

(Continued  from  Vol.  XVI.,  p.  54,  of  The  Record.) 


Johnson. 

Jan. 

Grey. 

Jan. 

Stewart. 

Jan. 

Glover. 

Feb. 

Davidson. 

Feb. 

Bean. 

Feb. 

(205) 
Townend. 

Feb. 

BRoaoH. 

Feb. 

McQueen. 

Feb. 

Berwick. 

Mar. 

VanVVart. 

Mar. 

Cheesman. 

Mar. 

Dongal. 

Mar. 
Mar. 

Mar. 

Warner. 

Mar. 

Allen. 

Mar. 

Morrison. 

Mar. 

DeGrove. 

Mar. 

23° 


30^' 


31^ 


13 

Quackenbos.   Feb.      13' 


15' 


2  7' 


2f 


J  3. 


13^ 


23^ 


2f 


1785. 


Marg* 


Dorothy  Margaret,  Dau""  of  Rob'  Johnson  and 

Ann  Dean  his  wife,  born  Dec"^  21^',  1784. 
Jane,  Dau"'  of  Andrew  Grey  &  Ehz*  Moorhead 

his  wife,  born  Dec'  20*,  1784. 
Alexander  John,  son  of  Alex"'  Stewart  &  Eliz* 

McCurdy  his  wife,  born  Jan'^^  i^',  1783. 
Agness,    Dau""    of   John    Glover    &    Elizabeth 

Miller  his  wife,  born  Dec""  13*,  1784. 
William,   son   of  William   Davidson    & 

Ferrie  his  wife,  born  Dec"  22*^,  1784. 
Catharine,  Dau"'  of  John   Bean  &  Eliz*''  Blake 

his  wife,  born  April  5"^,  1783. 
George  Clinton,  son   of  John   Quackenbos  & 

Catharine  De  Witt   his   wife,  born  Dec"'  21^', 

1784. 

Piatt,   son  of   D"'    Piatt    Townend    &    Martha 

Dickenson  his  wife,  born  Nov"  21''',  1784. 
Sarah,  Dau"  of  Robert  Brough  &  Sarah  Lowtet 

his  wife,  born  Jan'^  23^^,  1785. 
Ann,  Dau"  of  John  McQueen  &  Eliz""  Johnson 

his  wife,  born  Feb"^  18*    1785. 
Elizabeth,  Dau"  of  Robert  Berwick   and  Mary 
Van    Dewort    his   wife,    born    March     16*, 
1784. 
,   Elizabeth,    Dau"    of    William     VanWart    and 
Deborah   Parkes  his   wife,  born   Dec"   25**", 
1784. 
Phoebe,  Dau"  of  Joseph  Cheesman   and  Eliz* 

Crawford  his  wife,  born  July  10*,  1779. 
Elizabeth,  their  Dau",  born  May  is"",  1782. 
,   Samuel,  their  son,  born  Feb"^  I7*^  1785. 
,  Walter,  son  of  John  Dongal  &  Abigail  Skidman 

his  wife,  born  Feb"^  20*,  1785. 
,  James  Galatian,  son  of  Peter  Warner  &  Mary 

Vandal  his  wife,  born  Feb"^  4*,  1785. 
,  John,    Son    of    Samuel    Allen    and    Hannah 
Grant  his  wife,  born  Jan'^  31''',  1785. 
Cary,    Son     of   Donald    Morrison     and    Mary 
Gordon  his  wife,  born  March  g"',  1785. 
.  William   Nathan   Smith,  Son   of  William    De- 
Grove  and   Eliz'^  Elsworth   his    wife,  born 
Feb"^  24"\  1785. 


i886.] 

DeGraw. 

Mar, 

Whitlock. 

Mar. 

Wool. 

Mar. 

McCleary. 

Mar. 

Edgar. 

Apr. 

Jennings. 

Apr. 

Brant. 

Apr. 

IVERS. 

Apr. 

Lewis. 

Apr. 

Sutherland. 

Apr. 

Cation. 

Apr. 

LeCompte. 

Apr. 

Apr. 

Notes  and  Queries. 


23Z 


27' 


27' 


27' 


27' 


27' 


27' 


Walter,    Son    of    Walter    DeGraw    and    Icly 

Blank  his  wife,  born  Feb'^  I6'^  1785. 
Henry,  Son    of  Ephraim  Whitlock  and    Ann 

Tieboiit  his  wife,  born  Yeh'^  26"',  1785. 
Catharine,    Dau""  of  Isaiah    Wool  and    Marg' 

Whitlock  his  wife,  born  Feb'^  17"^,  1785. 
Hugh,    Son    of   Daniel    McCleary  and    Mary 

McClure  his  wife,  born  Sepf  i'',  1784. 
Annabella,   Dau'  of  WilHam   Edgar  and   Isa- 
bella White  his  wife,  born  March  6"^,  1785. 
William,  Son   of  William  Jennings  and  Janet 

Clark  his  wife,  born  March  2'^,  1785. 
Martha    Mary,    Dau'  of    Samuel    Brant    and 

Judith  Burdit  his  wife,  born  Feb^  8'^  1784. 
James   Arden,    Son    of   Hezekiah    Ivers    and 

Mary  Arden,  his  wife,  born  Jan^^  2  7'^  1785. 
James,  Son  of  James  Lewis  and  Eliz*    Deas 

his  wife,  born  March  I8'^  1785. 
John,    Son   of  Angus   Sutherland  and    Eliz"' 

Deas  his  wife,  born  April  19*   1785. 
Daniel  McCormick,  Son  of  David  Cation  and 

Susannah   Lasher  his  wife,  born  April    7* 

1785- 
Lewis    Son    of  John    Eaton    LeCompte   and 

Jane  Sloan  his  wife,  born  Aug'  4'^  1782. 
John  Eaton,  their  son,  born  Aug*  4"^,  1782. 


NOTES   AND    QUERIES. 

Pedigree  of  the  Elwes  Family. -In  the  account  of  "Some  Descendants  of 
Robert  and^nne  Drummond,"  contained  in  the  January  number  of  this  magazine  it  was 
stated  that  Rachel  Thomas,  of  Elizabeth  Town,  N.  J.,  one  of  them,  married  Captain 
John  ii/7cvj- (there  misspelled  Elwan),  of  the  British  Army,  which  was  on  Au"u«t4  1761 
from  that  date  the  Elwes  family  register  begins,  in  this  country.  But  as  it  is'' of  interest" 
and  sometimes  of  importance,  to  learn  the  nexus  between  the  original  family  in  the  old 
country  and  their  offshoots  in  this,  we  beg  leave  here  to  record  the  Elwes  Enalish  pedi- 
gree, just  received  from  a  young  friend  in  this  city,  Mr.  Charles  A.  Smith  whols  a  ereat- 
great-grandson  of  Captain  John  Elwes,  the  first  of  the  name  in  America 

It  begins  with   William  Elwes,   of  Askham,  in  Nottinghamshire,  who  married  

Levesy,  of  Lancaster.  Their  children  were:  (i)  Edward  Elwes,  of  Askham  ;  (2)  Tohn 
Elwes,  of  Wooloby,  Lancashire;  (3)  Thomas  Elwes,  of  Lawlethorpe,  Nottine  •  (a\ 
Geoffrey  Elwes,  Alderman  of  London,  m.  Eliza  Cabot.  ' 

Second  English  Gcn.-ralwn.— [On  record]  (i)  Sir  Gervaise  Elwes,  Lieutenant  of  the 
Tower,  son  of  John  of  Lancaster-no  descendants ;  (2)  John,  son  of  Geoffrey,  London 
Alderman,  also  Alderman. 

Third  Etiglish  Generation.— ?Ax  Gervaise,  of  Woodford,  Essex,  who  m  Frances  2d 
dau.  of  Sir  Robert  Lee,  of  Billesbe,  Warwickshire.  Their  children  [fourth  ^etierat]on\ 
were:   ( I)  Sir  Gervaise;    (2)  Robert,  unmarried  ;    (3)  Jeremy,  of  London,  merchant    m 

Lee,  of  that  city  ;  (4)  John,  of  Grove  House,  near  Fulham,  Middlesex,  m    Eliza' 

dau.  of  W.  Raleigh,  of  Earl  Horseley,  Surrey.  ' 

Fifth    Generation.~(\)    Sir  Gervaise,  of   Stoke  College,   created  Bart     12th  y    of 

Charles  II.,  d.  May,  1705,  m.  Amy,  dau.  of  Dr.  Trigg,   of   Highworth,  Wiltshire  •    (2) 

Mary,  who  m.  Thomas  Plomly,  father  of  Sir   Walter  P.      Jeremy  E.,  of  London'  had 

issue  as  follows  :   (i)  Jer.  Elwes;   (2)  Catherine,  m.  Mr.  S.,  of  London  •   (■>)  ' 

Elwes,  m.  Dr.  Pagitt,  of  Doctors  Commons.  Children  of  Sir  Gervaise  and  Amy  Tri^e  • 
(I)  Fr.  Elwes,  d.  young;  (2)  Gervaise,  who  d.   before    his  father,  m.  Isabell    dau    Sir 


234  Notes  and  Queries.  [July, 

Thomas  Hervey,  of  Ickwoorth ;  (3)  Frances,  bapt.  1659,111.  Ralph  Bronsall,  of  Bed- 
ford; (4)  Rebecca,  b.  i66o,  d.  1662  ;  (5)  Eliza,  b.  1663;  (6)  Ann,  b.  1665,  d.  1711  ;  (7) 
Charles,  b.  1667,  d.  1669;  (8)  William,  b.  1668,  m.  Eliza —  ;  (9)  Amy,  m.  Sir  J.  Robin- 
son, of  Denton-hall,  Suffolk;    (10)  Richard  Elwes ;    (11)  John  Elwes. 

Sixth  Getteration. — Children  of  Gervaise  and  Isabella  Hervey  :  (i)  Sir  Henry  Elwes, 
Bail,  of  Stoke  College — succeeded  to  his  grandfather's  title  and  estates — d.  unmarried, 
October  22,  1763;    (2)  John,  d.  September  15,    1750;   (3)  Isabella,  d.  1774;   (4)  Amy, 

m.  Meggott.     Children  of  William  and  Eliza:  (i)  John;   (2)  Gervaise,   b.    1699; 

(3)  Thomas,  b.  1700  ;  (4)  William,  b.  1701. 

Seventh  Generation. — (i) Meggott,   m.   John  Timms  ;   (2)  John  Meggott — m- 

herited  the  Stoke  estates  from  the  will  of  his  uncle,  Sir  Hervey,  and  took  the  name  and 
arms  of  Elwes — d.  at  Marcham,  Berkshire,  November  26,  1789.  Children  of  William 
Elwes  (b.  1701):  (i)  Henry  Elwes;  (2)  Captain  John  Elwes,  B.A.,  m.  Rachel 
Thomas,  dau.  of  Edward  Thomas  and  Sarah  Drummond,  of  Elizabeth  Town,  N.  J. 

Eighth  Generation  (in  England). — (i)  Richard  Timms,  Colonel  of  Second  Troop  of 

Horse  Guards,  m.  Hughes   of  Eltham,  Kent  (their  son,   John,   the  latest  English 

descendant  on  our  memorandum).  The  children  of  William  Elwes,  the  first  American- 
born  of  this  name  and  family,  son  of  Captain  John  Elwes  and  Rachel  Thomas,  were  ; 
(l)  W.  Henry  Alfred  Elwes,  Surgeon  in  U.  S.  A.,  of  Baltimore,  Md. ,  m.  Catherine,  dau. 
of  George  Cummings  Thomas,  Esq.,  of  Elizabeth,  N.  J.  ;  (2)  Amelia  Anna  Mary 
Elwes;    (3)  Rachel  Mary  Matilda;    (4)  Henry  M.  Augustine,  R.  Cath.  priest. 

N'inth  Generation. — Children  of  Dr.  W.  H.  Alfred  Elwes  and  Catherine  Thomas  : 
(l)  William,  d.  in  California  ;  (2)  Anna  Provost,  m.  Albert  M.  Smith,  of  New  York. 

No  one  of  the  Elwes  name  descending  from  this  old  English  family  is  now  known  in 
this  country.  william  hall. 

New  York,  April  16,  1886. 

Vannuxum. — This  old  Philadelphia  family  were  originally  from  Dunquerque, 
Flanders.  Mr.  James  Vannuxum  was  a  merchant  in  that  city,  whose  name,  as  such,  ap- 
pears in  the  first  Philadelphia  Directory,  which  was  issued  in  1785,  one  year  prior  to  the 
earliest  in  New  York.  He  married  Rebecca  Clark,  a  granddaughter  of  Thomas  Clark, 
who  emigrated  from  East  Haddam,  Conn.,  quite  early  in  the  last  century  to  Egg  Harbor, 
N.  J.  Her  brother,  or  uncle,  Elijah  Clark,  was  a  delegate  to  the  Provincial  Congress 
that  met  in  Trenton  in  1776.  A  grave-stone  in  an  old  burying-ground  at  "  Clark's 
Landing,"  Gloucester  County,  South  Jersey,  marks  the  last  resting-place  of  Thomas 
Clark.  We  would  like  to  know  the  dates  on  it.  The  family  was  some  way  connected 
with  the  Symmeses,  but  how  we  are  not  able  to  say.  Further  information  is  desired. 
Symmes  was  the  name  of  their  pastor  in  Millington  Parish,  Conn.,  who  also  left  there  for 
New  Jersey  in  1743.  A  few  years  subsequent  to  the  Revolution,  Mr.  Vannuxum,  a 
man  of  wealth,  visited,  with  his  family,  in  his  private  carriage,  his  wife's  kindred  in  Lyme, 
Conn.,  and  made  quite  a  sensation  among  them.  w.  H. 

New  York,  May  18,  1884. 

The  Drummonds  of  Prestonpans,  Scotland. — The  following  records  respecting 
this  family  have  been  received  in  a  letter  from  the  Rev.  Dr.  Struthers,  minister  of  the 
Church  of  Scotland,  in  the  above-mentioned  town,  dated  "  Prestonpans  Manse,  May  i, 
1886,"  and  addressed  to  the  undersigned,  which  thus  reads  : 

"  It  gives  me  pleasure  to  reply  to  your  queries  regarding  your  ancestral  connections 
of  the  name  of  Drummond  formerly  residing  in  this  parish.  I  may  mention  that  I  have 
had  several  similar  inquiries  from  Canada  and  the  States,  and  have  been  led  to  examine 
our  baptismal  and  other  parochial  registers  very  carefully,  which  exist  from  1595  down- 
ward. All  that  were  known  to  be  in  existence  when  I  became  minister  of  this  parish, 
forty-two  years  ago,  we»e,  in  compliance  with  an  Act  of  Parliament  passed  about  thirty 
years  ago,  transmitted  to  the  General  Registry  Ofhce  in  Edinburgh,  for  safe  custody, 
where  they  can  be  consulted  only  on  fees  paid.  At  a  subsequent  date,  however,  I  in- 
cidentally discovered  the  four  earliest  volumes  among  musty,  illegible  papers  in  the  reposi- 
tories of  a  deceased  townsman,  and  from  excerpts  from  them  and  others,  I  gladly  give 
you  the  following,  wherein  the  name  of  Drummond  appears.  In  Prestonpans  Baptismal 
Ref^istry,  subsequent  to  1595,  there  are  entered  under  the  name  of  Drummond,  thus; 

"  1659.  Robert  D.  and  his  wife,  '  Isabel  Melvine,'  had  a  son,  Gavin,  baptized  June 
19th. 

"  1662.  R.  D.  and  I.  M.  had  another  son,  Alexander,  bapt.  June  8th,  one  of  the 
witnesses  being  Alexander  Drummond. 


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"  1668.   R.  D.  and  his  wife,  I.  '  Melvill,'  had  another  son,  George,  bapt.  March  8th. 

"  1668.  James  D.  and  his  wife,  Elspeth  Brown,  had  a  daughter,  Katherine,  bapt, 
April  19th,  one  of  the  witnesses  being  Robert  D.  (probably  R.  D.  of  1659). 

"  1692.  Alexander  D.  and  his  wife,  Sophia  Mairs,  had  a  daughter,  Helen,  bapt. 
August  7th,  one  of  the  witnesses  being  James  D.  of  1668. 

"i  713-  John  D.  and  Christine  Hamilton,  his  wife,  had  a  son,  James,  bapt.  April  17th. 

"  1714.    Also  another  son,  John,  bapt.  September  9th. 

"In  the  marriage  register  there  occur,  under  date  March  30,  1615,  Thomas  Drum- 
mond  and  Janet  '  Mabie.' 

"Mr.  Paton,  formerly  of  Kingston,  Canada,  of  an  eminent  commercial  house  in  New 
York,  is  ancestrally  connected  with  this  district  of  Scotland,  and  may  possibly  be  able  to 
help  you  in  your  inquiries,  if  deemed  worth  pursuing  into  details." 

Relative  to  the  genealogical  information  thus 'kindly  given  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Struthers, 
we  would  remark  that  it  seems  to  afibrd  no  certain  clew  to  the  family  and  birth-place  of 
Robert  Drummond,  of  ancient  New  York,  in  search  of  which  the  inquiry  was  made,  ex- 
cept we  regard  as  such  the  baptismal  name  of  one  of  his  grandsons  in  Elizabeth,  N.  J., 
which  was  George  Drummond  Thomas. 

Relative  to  the  valuable  fact  reported  in  this  letter,  of  the  transmission,  some  years 
ago,  of  the  Scotch  parochial  records  to  the  General  Registry  Office  in  Edinburgh,  we 
would  here  add  the  information  given,  in  one  of  our  late  historical  magazines,  perhaps, 
that  Thomas  Dickson,  Esq.,  is  the  present  curator  of  that  office,  and  that  "  purely  anti- 
quarian and  genealogical  searches  are  without  office  fees .'''' 

Our  distinguished  correspondent,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Struthers,  Secretary  of  the  "  Scottish 
Bible  Society,"  incidentally  mentions  in    this  letter  that  he  was  in  New  York  in  Octo- 
ber, i88o,  and   just  returned  from  a  visit  to  the  Holy  Land,  at  which  time  he  "had  the 
privilege  of  hearing  a  very  interesting  sermon  from  the  Rev.  Dr.  Hall,  of  this  city." 
New  York,  May  13,  1886.  w.  H. 

[Since  the  foregoing  was  written,  the  following  item  was  published  in  a  Monmouth 
County  (N.  J.)  paper. — Editor.] 

"  Mr.  Isaac  C.  Kennedy,  who  has  given  much  attention  to  conveyancing  and  searching 
of  titles,  frequently  runs  across  old  relics  in  the  way  of  ancient  deeds.  Among  his  last 
researches  he  unearthed  a  quaint  and  interesting  specimen  in  an  original  conveyance  from 
the  Indians,  for  the  lands  about  Deal  Lake,  to  Garvin  Drummond,  a  descendant  of  the 
Scottish  Earl  of  Melford.  The  grant  was  given  in  the  name  and  behalf  of  the  Governor 
and  Proprietors  of  East  Jersey,  and  signed  by  Wee  Wanaman,  Massekaman,  and  Waywma- 
tunce,  chief  sachems,  with  the  consent  of  the  rest  of  the  Indians.  The  lands  were  gen- 
erally described  as  lying  within  the  branches  of  Great  Pond,  called  by  the  Indians  Wicka- 
pecko.  As  is  generally  known,  the  East  Jersey  Proprietors  required  purchasers  to  secure 
a  title  from  the  Indians  before  taking  possession.  The  payment  for  this  valuable  mes- 
suage was  one  gun,  five  match  coats,  one  kettle,  and  two  pounds  of  powder.  The  docu- 
ment was  dated  April  6,  1687." 

Natural  Heirship. — The  Publication  Committee  desire  to  call  attention  to  a  re- 
markable article  (remarkable  both  from  a  genealogical  and  political  point  of  view)  on 
"Natural  Heirship;  or.  All  the  World  Akin,"  by  the  Rev.  Henry  Kindall,  in  the  Nine- 
teentk  Century,  and  reprinted  in  the  Popular  Science  Monthly.  It  takes  the  American 
view  of  genealogy — as  opposed  to  the  British — and  is  radical  as  any  reader  of  The 
Record  could  wish.  The  article  is  not  without  flaws  in  its  logic,  but  still  good  and 
worth  some  attention. 

An  Old-Time  Real  Estate  Agent. — I  think  Long  Island  can  claim  the  honor  (!) 
of  having  the  first  '•^  Real  Estate  Agent"  of  any  place  in  America,  as  witness  the 
following : 

John  Hinksman  sells  to  John  Dickenson  a  piece  of  land  at  Oyster  Bay,  and  in  pay- 
ment receives  Broad  Cloth  to  the  amount  of  _;^3,  and  Liquors  to  the  amount  of  ;^i.  ♦'  A 
quart  of  Sack  and  a  half  pint  of  liquor''''  was  '■''paid  to  Peter  Wright  for  making  the 
bargain.'''' — Vide  Oyster  Bay  Rec,  Book  A,  p.  145.  I>ANL.  H.  CARPENTER. 

Dated  February,  1659. 

Southampton,  L.  I, — We  are  glad  to  learn  that  the  author  of  "  The  Early  His- 
tory of  Southampton,"  (ieorge  Rogers  Howell,  M.A.,  proposes  to  issue  a  second  edition 
of  this  work,  revised,  enlarged,  and  corrected ;  especially  in  the  department  of  genealogy. 


236  Notes  and  Queries.  [J^^y^ 

It  will  contain  genealogies  more  or  less  complete  of  the  following  Southampton  families 
and  their  descendants :  Bishops  Burnett,  Chatfield,  Cook,  Cooper,  Corwith^  Culver^ 
Dayton,  Dimoii,  Edwards,  Fanning,  Fithian,  Fordham,  Foster,  Fowler,  Gelsion, 
Goodall,  Halsey,  Hand,  Harris,  Haynes,  Hedges,  Herrick,  Hildreth,  Hoivell,  Hunt- 
^'*'Si  y"^S'.S'^'''  y^nnings,  yessnp,  Jones,  Litdlow,  Lnpton,  Mitchell,  Parsciis,  Pelletrean, 
Pierson,  Post,  Raytior,  Reeves,  Rogers,  Rose,  Sanford,  Sayre,  Scott,  Seymonr,  Squires, 
Stanbrojigh,  Stephens,  Talniadge,  Terbell,  Topping,  White,  IVick,  Woodruff,  and 
Woolley,  besides  partial  genealogies  and  mention  of  other  families  connected  with  the  his- 
tory of  this  town.  The  book  will  be  issued,  if  about  two  hundred  subscribers  can  be  ob- 
tained, at  $3  per  copy,  and  will  embrace  about  three  hundred  pages  8vo.  Subscribers 
may  send  their  names  to  George  R.  Howell,  State  Library,  Albany,  N.  Y. 

Balch. — A  diagram  of  one  line  of  descent  from  John  Balch,  born  1579,  in  Bridge- 
water,  County  Somerset,  England,  who  came  from  England  to  Massachusetts  in  1623, 
has  been  privately  issued,  in  the  "  Blue  Process"  form,  by  G.  B.  Balch, M.D.,  of  Yonkers, 
N.  Y. 

Cleveland. — Mr.  Edward  James  Cleveland,  of  191  Sigourney  Street,  Hartford, 
Conn.,  has  nearly  ready  for  the  press  a  "  Cleveland  Family"  genealogy,  which  registers 
over  thirty  thousand  descendants. 

Dorr. — Mr.  Edgar  R.  Dorr,  of  396  Congress  Street,  Portland,  Me.,  is  preparing 
a  genealogy  of  the  family  of  this  name. 

Unclaimed  Fortunes  in  Holland  for  American  Heirs. — The  following  letter 
from  our  Minister  at  The  Hague  may  serve  to  quiet  the  expectations  of  some  who  have 
given  too  credulous  an  ear  to  reports  of  "  large  fortunes"  awaiting  their  families  in  Hol- 
land : 

Legation  of  the  United  States  at  The  Hague, 
March  26,  1886. 
James  R.  Gibson,  Jr.,  Esq.,  New  York. 

The  numerous  inquiries  received  at  this  legation,  since  my  arrival  here,  in  reference  to 
unclaimed  fortunes  in  Holland  supposed  to  be  waiting  supposed  claimants  in  the  United 
States,  prompted  me  to  address  an  official  inquiry  to  the  Government  upon  the  general 
subject  of  unclaimed  estates. 

It  appears  from  the  reply  of  the  Foreign  Office  here,  a  copy  of  which  may  be  had  upon 
application  to  the  Department  of  State  at  Washington,  that  the  legislation  ol  this  coun- 
try has  effectually  disposed  of  all  such  claims,  even  if  inherently  just,  which  were  not  pre- 
sented to  and  proven  before  the  Loan  Commission  of  Liquidation,  established  in  1852. 

The  act  of  March  q,  1852,  provided  for  the  organization  of  a  Commission  whose  duty 
it  became  to  adjudicate  all  claims  against  estates  of  deceased  persons,  as  well  as  claims 
for  moneys  and  estates  held  by  the  Government. 

This  Commission,  which  was  known  as  the  Commission  of  Liquidation,  took  charge  of 
all  funds  undisposed  of  in  the  hands  of  the  courts  and  other  officials  of  Holland. 

In  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  the  act  establishing  that  Commission,  an  adver- 
tisement was  inserted  in  the  official  journal  known  as  the  Staats  Coiirant,  notifying  all 
claimants  to  any  portion  of  the  funds  in  the  custody  of  the  Commission  to  present  their 
demands  and  submit  proof  in  support  thereof. 

At  the  expiration  of  six  months  from  the  first,  a  second  notice  was  inserted  in  the  offi- 
cial journal,  having  a  similar  purport. 

After  the  lapse  of  five  years  from  the  second  notice,  all  moneys  and  estates  to  which 
claims  had  not  been  established,  escheated  under  the  provisions  of  the  act  to  the  State. 

The  Commission  of  Liquidation  concluded  its  labors  several  years  ago,  and  the  act  has 
finally  disposed  of  all  claims  to  estates  originating  prior  to  1852. 

You  can  make  such  use  of  this  information  as  you  may  deem  proper. 

The  correspondence  received  at  this  Legation  shows  that  the  genealogical  "  mania  " 
is  quite  as  prevalent  as  that  for  imaginary  estates. 

Yours  very  truly,  Isaac  Bell,  Jr. 

May — Lyons— Butler. — ^Henry  A.  May,  93  Camden  Street,  Boston,  Mass.,  has 
hi  press  "The  May  Family  in  America,"  a  large  volume  ;  and  in  preparatio7t,  "The 
May  Family  in  Europe;"  also,  in  preparation,  "The  Lyons  Family  in  Europe  and 
America  ;  "  also,  The  Butler  Family. 


1 886.]  Books  Donated  to  the  Society.  237 

Raymond. — Mr.  Samuel  Raymond,  of  S42  Fulton  Avenue,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  issues 
(under  date  of  April  10,  1SS6)  a  circular  of  the  "  History  and  Genealogy  of  the  Raymond 
Family,"  descendants  of  Richard,  John,  and  William,  of  Salem  and  Beverly,  Mass.,  and 
said  by  experts  to  have  been  brothers.  The  work  contains  1,061  families  in  the  male 
line,  whose  children  number  over  5,100;  intermarriages  numbering  over  2.500,  with 
over  1,500  different  family  names. 

The  proposed  work  will  make  an  octavo  volume  of  about  360  pages,  bound  in  cloth  ; 
only  ten  copies  over  the  actual  subscription  list  will  be  printed.  Price,  $5.  Mr.  Ray- 
mond, now  in  his  seventy-fifth  year,  proposes  to  put  his  work  to  press  on  July  ist  of  the 
present  year.  The  opinion  of  experts  who  have  examined  the  manuscript  is  very  favora- 
ble to  the  work. 

SoMERDYKE. — Any  information  regarding  heirs  of  Richard  Somerdyke  will  be  ac- 
ceptable to  Mr.  James  R.  Hay,  P.  O.  Box  3416,  New  York  City. 

Seelye.  —  Wanted,  the  name  and  address  of  the  parties  in  New  York  City  (?)  who 
are  engaged  in  preparing  a  genealogy  of  the  Seelye  family. 

Philip  Livingston,  "  The  Signer.  '' — What  is  the  true  date  of  his  birth  ?  In  Hol- 
gate's  *'  American  Genealogies,"  and  in  Sanderson's  "  Lives  of  the  Signers,"  he  is  said  to 
have  been  born  at  Albany,  on  January  15,  1716  [.^  New  Style],  which  is  the  date  also  generally 
given  by  other  authorities.  But  on  his  monument  he  is  said  to  have  "died  on  12  Jvme, 
177S,  aged  63  years."  H  this  inscription  is  correct,  he  must  have  been  born  in  1715  ; 
while,  on  the  other  hand.  Professor  Pearson,  in  his  "  Genealogies  of  the  First  Settlers  of 
Albany,"  gives  the  date  of  his  baptism  as  January,  1717  !  Can  any  of  your  readers  throw 
light  on  these  differences  in  the  dates  ?  E.  B.   L. 

London. 

Marseilles. — Information  wanted  as  to  the  "  Charles  Marseilles,  gentleman,  at 
New  York  (his  business,  profession,  ancestry,  and  anything  concerning  him),  to  whom 
Rev.  Jacob  Duche,  the  first  chaplain  of  the  Continental  Congress,  in  Philadelphia,  ad- 
dressed several  letters  in  1771-72  (afterward  published  in  book  form),  over  the  signature 
of  Tanioc  Caspipina,  which  nam  de  plnme  was  formed  of  the  initials  of  his  professional 
calling,  viz.  :  Z'he  Assistant  i7/inister  Oi  Ciirist  Church  ^nd  Si.  /'eter's  /n  /'hiladelphia 
/n  jVorth  America. 

Information  also  desired  of  any  individual  by  the  surname  oi  Marseilles  (French  Hu- 
guenot),'who,  during  the  religious  persecutions  in  France,  after  the  Revocation  of  the 
Edict  of  Nantes,  fled  from  France  to  Holland,  thence  came  to  America,  and  settled  in 
Northern  New  Jersey.     Address,  Charles  Marseilles,  Exeter,  N.  H. 


BOOKS    DONATED    TO   THE   SOCIETY. 

From   Lieut.  A.  D.  Schenck,  U.S.A.     The  Reports  of  the  General  of  the   Army  to 

the  Secretary  of  War  for  1SS3  and  18S5.     8vo.      Washington,  1883  and  18S6. 
"       TiCKNOR  &  Co.      Life  of  Henry    Wadsworth    Longfellow.     With   Extracts   from 

his  Journals  and  Correspondence.     Two  vols.     Edited  by  Samuel  Longfellow. 

8vo.      Boston,  1886. 
"      General  C.    W.    Darling.     Transactions   of  the  Oneida    Historical  Society, 

1881-1884.     8vo.     Utica,    1885.     Anthropophagy,    Historic  and  Prehistoric. 

By  Gen.  C.  W.  Darling.      8vo.      Privately  Printed'.      Utica,  1S86. 
"•      State  Historical  Society  of  Wisconsin.     Thirty-second  Annual  Report. 

8vo.     Madison,   1886. 
"      John    Wiley  &  Sons.      Proeterita.     Outlines  of  Scenes   and    Thoughts  in   my 

Past  Life.      Ten  Chapters.      By  John  Ruskin,   LL.D.      New  York,   1885. 
"      A.  S.  Barnes  &  Co.     The  Storrs  Family ;   Genealogical  and  Other  Memoranda. 

Contains  a  Portrait  of  the  Author.     Collected  and  Compiled  by  Charles  Storrs. 

Royal  8vo.      Privately  Prihted.      New  York,  1S86. 
"      Gerrit  H.  Van  Wagenen.     The  History  of  the  School  of  the  Collegiate  Re- 
formed  Dutch  Church  in  the  City  of  New  York,  from  1633-1SS3.     By  Henry 

W.  Dunshee.     8vo.     New  York,  1886. 


2^8  Notes  on  Books.  [J^'^Yj 

From  Rev.  Dr.  E.  D.  G.  Prime.  Catalogue  of  the  Library,  Autographs,  Engravings, 
etc.,  of  the  Late  L  Bushnell,  Esq.  Sold  by  Bangs  &  Co.,  Monday,  April  2d, 
and  four  following  days.  8vo.  New  York,  1883.  In  Remembrance  of  Rich- 
ard Pike  Buck.  8vo.  1S85.  The  Thurstons  at  Newburyport  ;  1635,  First 
Settlement  ;    18S5,  First  Gathering.      8vo.      Portland,  Me.,  1885. 

"  Mahlon  Stacy  Kirkbride.  Domestic  Portraiture  of  our  Ancestors  "  Kirk- 
bride,"    1650-1824.      i2mo.     Privately  Printed. 

"  MOREY  Hale  Bartow.  History  of  the  Reformed  Church,  New  Paltz,  Ulster 
County,  N.  Y.,  16S3-18S3.  By  Rev.  Ame  Vennesua.  i2mo.  Rondout,  N. 
Y.,  1884.  Stevens'  Historical  Nuggets.  Catalogue  :  Vol.  iii.,  Part  i.  i2mo. 
And  Catalogue  of  Rare  Books  relating  to  America.  Svo.  London,  1885. 
Facts  about  Unclaimed  Money  and  Estates.  Including  the  Register  of  5,000 
Names.     By  James  Usher.     8vo.     New  York. 

"  The  New  England  Historical  and  Genealogical  Society.  Genealogical 
Gleanings  in  England,  xii.  8vo.  Boston,  1886.  Papers  in  Egerton,  Ms. 
2,395.  Svo.  Boston,  1886.  By  Henry  F.  Waters.  John  Harvard.  Com- 
municated by  John  T.    Hassam,   A.M.      8vo.      Boston,  1886. 

"  The  Buffalo  Historical  Society.  Annual  Report  of  the  Board  of  Mana- 
gers, January  12,  1886.      8vo.      Buffalo,  1886. 

"  E.  M.  Barton.  Brigadier-General  Robert  Toombs.  An  Address  delivered 
before  the  Confederate  Survivors'  Association,  Memorial  Day,  April  26,  1886. 
By  Colonel  Charles  C.  Jones,  Jr.,  LL.D.     8vo.     Augusta,   Ga.,    1886. 

"  Smithsonian  Institute.  Annual  Report  of  the  Board  of  Regents  for  18S4. 
Svo.      Washington,  18S5. 

"  Ernest  H.  Crosby.  The  Rutgers  Family  of  New  York.  By  the  Donor.  Svo. 
New  York,  1886. 

"  Rev.  T. -W.  Chambers,  D.D.,  LL.D.  Year-Book  of  the  Collegiate  Reformed 
Protestant  Dutch  Church  of  New  York  City.      i2mo.      New  York,  1886. 

"  McDonnell  Bros.  The  Irish  in  America.  A  Lecture  by  William  R.  Grace. 
Svo.      Chicago,  1886. 

"      RuFus  King.     Genealogy  of  the  Havvley  Family.      i2mo.      18S0. 

"      Henry  R.  Stiles,  M.D.     Chart  of  the  Balch  Family.     One  Sheet. 

"      The  Bostonian  Society.     Proceedings,  January  12,  1886.     Svo.     Boston,  1SS6. 

"  J.  Fletcher  Williams.  I.  O.  O.  F.  Reminiscences  of  Thirty  Years'  Member- 
ship. By  the  Donor,  The  Ramsey  County  Pioneer  Association,  Constitution, 
Officers,  List  of  Residents  in  1857-8.      Svo.      St.    Paul,  1886. 

«'      H.  H.  Young.      The  Labor  Question.     By  the  Donor.     Svo.     St.  Paul,  18S6. 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS. 


The  Centennial  History  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  the  Dio- 
cese of  New  York,  1785-18S5.  Edited  by  James  Grant  Wilson.  Svo,  pp. 
454.      With  illustrations.      New  York:   D.  Appleton  &  Co.      1S86. 

Strictly  speaking  this  work  does  not,  except  in  its  minor  points,  come  within  the 
province  of  this  magazine,  and  therefore  cannot  claim  more  than  a  passing  notice.  It 
is  a  handsome  volume,  from  the  press  of  Messrs.  Appleton,  of  this  city,  and  very 
nearly  covers  the  history  of  the  second  centennial  period  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church  in  New  York.  The  times  embraced  in  the  work  were  fruitful  with  feeling  and 
earnest  labor,  and  we  believe  it  may  be  fairly  said  that  no  historian  of  this  church  has 
yet  arisen  who  has  brought  to  the  labor  before  him  all  the  essentials  for  an  accurate 
and  faithful  history  of  this  period. 

The  proceedings  of  the  Centenary  Celebration  were  held  in  New  York,  in  September, 
1S85.  The  Centennial  Sermon  was  preached  by  Rev.  W.  J.  Seabury,  D.D. ,  and  in  it 
the  attempt  is  made  to  create  an  impression  of  pre-eminence  in  favor  of  Bishop  Seabury 
vs.  Bishop  Provoost.  This  will  fail  to  make  a  favorable  impression  on  the  minds  of  the 
descendants  of  the  patriots  of  the  American  Revolution. 

There  are  brief  biographical  "  Sketches  of  the  Bishops  of  the  Diocese,"  followed  by 
"Parish  Histories"  of  the  several  parishes  of  the  same.  If,  in  an  introductory  note, 
an  acknowledgment  had  been  made  of  the  source  from  whence  the  information  respect- 
ing these  parishes  was  obtained,   the  general  reader  would   have  been   aided  in  forming 


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an  opinion  as  to  the  correctness  of  this  part  of  the  work.  As  it  is,  the  editor  must  share 
largely  the  responsibility  of  introducing  to  the  American  public  a  volume  which  will, 
perhaps,  in  some  points,  fail  to  impress  its  readers  with  all  the  elements  of  historical 
fairness.  p. 

Life  and  Letters  of  Joel  Barlow,  LL.D.,  Poet,  Statesman,  Philosopher  : 
With  extracts  from  his  Works  and  hitherto  unpublished  Poems.  By  Charles 
Burr  Todd.  New  York  and  London  :  G.  P.  Putnam's  Sons.  The  Knickerbocker 
Press.      1 886.     8vo.  iv.  306. 

Both  the  student  of  American  history  and  the  lover  of  American  literature  have  reason 
to  thank  Mr.  Todd  for  what  he  has  thus  done  toward  rescuing  from  forgetfulness,  the 
works  and  fame  of  a  singularly  worthy  and  useful  man.  It  is  the  first  biography  of  him 
which  has  been  written — for  it  is  but  lately  that  any  of  the  great  Republican  leaders  of 
the  United  States  have  had  accorded  to  them  the  merit  which  they  deserve.  Barlow's 
"verse  first  gave  American  poetry  a  standing  abroad.  His  prose  writing  contributed 
largely  to  the  triumph  of  Republicanism  in  1800.  He  was  the  first  American  cosmopo- 
lite, and  twice  made  use  of  his  position  to  avert  from  his  country  a  threatened  foreign 
war.  He  was  the  godfather  of  the  steamboat  and  the  canal,  and  sponsor  with  Jefferson 
of  our  present  magnificent  system  of  internal  improvements  ;  while,  had  he  been  permit- 
ted to  carry  out  his  grand  idea  of  a  national  university,  it  is  safe  to  say  that  American 
art,  letters,  science,  and  mechanics  would  now  be  on  a  much  more  advanced  and  satisfactory 
footing."  Although  Mr.  Todd  has,  very  naturally  perhaps,  presented  his  subject  in  a 
much  more  favorable  light  than  many  will  be  disposed  to  allow,  yet  he  has,  at  least, 
enabled  the  present  generation  to  form  an  average  judgment  upon  it,  which  they  have  not, 
hitherto,  had  the  means  of  forming.  The  work  is,  also,  a  timely  one  ;  it  comes  to  us  at  a 
period  when  we  are,  better  than  ever  before,  able  to  judge  more  clearly  of  the  motives 
and  actions  of  the  founders  of  our  Republic  ;  and  at  a  time,  also,  when  the  clouds  of 
inherited  political  prejudice  (though  not  altogether  dispelled  from  our  social  and  literary 
atmosphere)  do  not  so  much  obscure  our  vision  of  the  past.  Mr.  Todd  has  performed  his 
work  in  an  elegant  manner,  and  has  given  us  a  book  into  which  when  one  has  once 
glanced,  he  will  not  willingly  refrain  from  reading  until  he  has  reached  the  last  page. 

h.  r.  s. 

-1  Life  of  Henry  W.\dsworth  Longfellow  :  With  Extracts  from  his  Journals  and 
Correspondence.  Edited  by  Samuel  Longfellow.  Boston  :  Ticknor  &  Co., 
1886.     Two  vols.  8vo.  iv.  433;  vi.  481.     Portraits  and  Illustrations. 

These  two  fair  and  stately  volumes  contain  the  record  of  a  singularly  felicitous,  blame- 
less, and  useful  life  ;  told  in  an  equally  felicitous  and  tender  manner.  The  author  has 
wisely  allowed  the  poet  himself  to  speak  through  the  means  of  extracts  from  journals, 
correspondence,  etc.,  and  the  result  is  that  the  poet  will  be  even  more  securely  ensconced 
in  the  affectionate  regard  of  his  admirers  than  before.  The  work  is  not  less  valuable  for 
its  side-lights  upon  and  glimpses  into  the  early  literary  history  of  American  authorship, 
than  for  its  relations  to  Longfellow  himself.  For  the  poet  was  one  of  a  memorable 
group  of  literati,  most  of  whom  have  now  "  passed  over  to  the  majority  ; "  and,  as  we 
read  his  journal-notes  and  references,  as  well  as  his  letters  to  and  from  them,  we  feel  as 
if  we  were  peeping  and  listening  "  behind  the  scenes  "  to  a  veritable  "•  feast  of  the  Gods." 
To  have  lived  amid  such  a  rare  companionship  as  Longfellow  enjoyed,  in  both  continents, 
was  surely  a  life  to  have  been  envied  ;  to  have  lived  amid  it  so  serenely  and  lovingly,  so 
loyally  to  truth  and  to  his  friends,  so  freely  from  any  touch  of  envy  or  selfishness,  so  use- 
fully to  mankind  ;  and,  withal,  to  have  surrounded  himself  with  the  love  and  respect,  as 
well  as  with  the  plaudits  of  so  large  a  share  of  mankind — this,  indeed,  was  Life  in  its 
highest,  truest  meaning.  Beside  Longfellow's  works  these  volumes  will  now  stand — the 
one  interpreting  the  other — neither  fully  to  be  comprehended  without  the  other. 

h.  r.  s. 

Pr/ETERITA  :  Outlines  of  Scenes  and  Thoughts  perhaps' Worthy  of  Memory  in  My  Past 
Life.  By  John  Ruskin,  LL.D.,  Honorary  Student  of  Christ  Church,  Honorary 
Fellow  of  Corpus  Christi  College,  and  Slade  Professor  of  Fine  Arts,  Oxford.  In 
twelve  parts.     8vo.     New  York  :   John  Wiley  &  Sons,  1885.     344  pp. 

Every  lover  of  Ruskin  and  of  Art  will  keenly  enjoy  this  autobiographic  revelation  of 
the  Great  Master's  life  and  mental  growth.  It  must  be  read  to  be  appreciated — where- 
fore, we  will  only  say  of  it  that  its  outward  form,  large,  fair,  open  type,  upon  laid  paper 


240  Notes  on  Books.  [July, 

of  clearest  tint,  is  wholly  in  accordance  with  its  inward  grace  and  value.  Each  "  Part  " 
forms  a  separate  chapter,  and  the  whole  is  to  be  completed  in  twelve  parts — of  which 
ten  are  already  publisiied. 

The  Civil,  Political,  Professional,  and  Ecclesiastical  History,  and  Com- 
mercial AND  Industrial  Record  of  the  County  of  Kings,  and  the  City  of 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  from  1683  to  18S4.  By  Henry  R.  Stiles,  A.M.,  M.D., 
Editor-in-Chief,  assisted  by  L.  B.  Proctor,  Esq.,  and  L.  P.  Brockett,  A.M.,  M.D. 
With  portraits,  biographies,  and  illustrations.  2  vols.,  4to.  New  York  :  W,  W. 
Munseil  &  Co.      1S84.      I408  pp. 

Three  years  of  arduous  and  conscientious  labor  on  the  part  of  Dr.  Stiles  have  resulted 
in  the  production  of  tliis  elegant  volume;  and  seldom,  if  ever,  has  so  stupendous  a  local 
history  been  undertaken,  even  in  this  land  of  great  undertakings.  In  this  work  he  has 
condensed  and  supplemented  the  admirable  "  History  of  the  City  of  Brooklyn,"  which 
he  revised  fifteen  years  ago,  and  which  has  long  been  a  standard  work.  In  addition,  he 
has  carefully  edited  (in  the  best  sense  of  the  term)  an  equally  exhaustive  and  encyclopaedic 
history  of  the  County  of  Kings,  of  which  Brooklyn  now  forms  so  large  a  part  ;  and  has 
furnished  us  (by  his  felicitous  choice  of  subordinate  writers)  with  new  and  excellent  his- 
tories of  the  other  towns  of  the  county.  Dr.  Stiles  seems  to  have  borne  constantly  in 
mind  the  general  scope  of  the  whole,  and  the  relations  of  its  several  parts  to  each  other, 
and  thus  has  been  able  to  secure  a  nearer  approach  to  harmony  of  detail  than  is  usually 
found  in  similar  productions.  Admirably  equipped  for  the  sifting  and  arranging  of  the 
mass  of  historical,  biographical,  and  statistical  material  through  his  former  labors  and  ex- 
perience in  the  same  field,  he  also  possessed  tact  and  talent  in  gathering  personal  and 
family  history,  and  in  so  presenting  facts  in  their  proper  light  and  place,  as  to  contribute 
greatly  to  the  interest  as  well  as  permanent  value  of  the  work.  One  feature  commanding 
special  notice  is  the  record  of  growth  and  development  in  all  departments  of  material  in- 
terest— as  the  industrial,  manufacturing,  commercial,  architectural,  the  parks,  the  water 
supply,  and  the  professions.  The  chapters  devoted  to  the  Charitable  Institutions  and 
Ecclesiastical  Organizations  of  the  county  would  together  fill  a  good-sized  volume,  and  as 
they  were  prepared  under  the  personal  direction  of  the  indefatigable  and  painstaking 
editor,  their  authoritative  worth  is  assured.  The  history  of  Sunday-school  work,  the 
rise  and  progress  of  Medicine,  Educational  Institutions,  Fish  Culture,  and  the  Markets, 
are  among  the  chapters  to  which  we  would  direct  the  reader's  attention 

The  work  abounds  in  steel  portraits,  designated  as  choice  works  of  art.  There  are 
not  less  than  two  hundred  and  fifty,  magniun  opus  !  and  as  many  other  illustrations,  in- 
cluding maps,  autographs,  buildings,  and  views.  Fortunately,  seconded  in  the  prepara- 
tion of  this  important  work  by  the  publishers,  W.  W.  Munseil  &  Co.,  the  editor  has  had 
the  pleasure  of  seeing  his  labors  issued  in  a  style  which  makes  it  the  most  creditable 
local  history  yet  issued  from  the  American  press.  In  wealth  of  illustration,  excellence  of 
typography,  paper,  binding,  and  all  the  essentials  of  good  book-making,  it  leaves  nothing 
to  be  desired.  j.  g.  W. 

The  Storrs  Family:  Genealogical  and  other  Memoranda,  collected  and  compiled  by 
Charles  Storks.     Privately  printed.     New  York,  1886.     Royal  8vo.     pp.552. 

A  work  of  great  merit,  well  printed  and  bound— but  too  heavy  and  costly  to  suit  our 
taste.  The  repetition  in  capitals  of  the  numbered  "  Generations,"  spread  over  wide 
spaces,  instead  of  a  brief  designation  by  numerals,  diverts  attention  and  greatly  enlarges 
the  size  and  increases  the  weight  and  the  cost  of  the  volume.  But  the  substantial  merits 
of  the  work  are  so  great  as  to  render  the  criticism  slight.  Besides  the  general  notice  of 
persons  named  Storrs  in  England  and  America,  there  is  a  very  satisfactory  account  of  the 
first  Samuel  Storrs,  born  about  1640,  the  founder  of  the  family  in  America  ;  this  Samuel, 
after  arrival  in  New  England,  married  (ist),  in  1666,  a  daughter  of  Thomas  Huckins 
(Drake's  Boston,  236),  and  Mary  Wells,  his  wife;  and  (2d),  in  1685,  Esther,  widow  of 
John  Agard.  He  had  nine  children,  who  intermarried  with  families  of  Burge,  IVood^ 
yacobs.  Porter,  and  others.  The  names  become  too  numerous  to  be  repeated  here,  but 
are  instructive.  Among  tlie  descendants,  scattered  very  far  over  our  wide-spreading 
country,  the  number  of  clergymen  and  lawyers  seem  particularly  large,  their  sects  numer- 
ous, and  their  success  remarkable.  There  were  also  several  noted  physicians.  Great  care 
has  been  taken  for  accuracy  and  for  clearness  of  description  ;  and  the  writer's  style  is 
remarkably  good.  The  leisurely  visit  of  the  retired  merchant  and  author  to  England,  in 
1867,  very  happily  introduced  him  to  a  namesake  of  the  same  family,  and  to   the  ancient 


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homestead  of  his  ancestors  in  the  northern  part  of  the  long,  interior  County  of  Nottingham, 
near  the  border  line  of  Yorkshire  ;  and  enabled  him  to  arrange  for  copies  of  old  wills, 
and  for  many  genealogical  proofs,  wJiich  he  gathered  and  presents  to  our  attention. 

Of  his  direct  ancestors  he  has  printed  the  will  of  William  of  "  Lounde,  in  the  Parish 
of  Sutton,"  dated  1557,  which  named  his  wife  and  five  children:  the  will  of  William's 
son  Robert,  of  the  same  place,  dated  in  158S,  naming  also  wife  and  five  children,  the 
oldest  called  Cordall,  and  appointing  John  and  Thomas  Hammond  supervisors;  the  will 
of  Cordall  of  the  same  place,  dated  1615,  and  proved  1616,  naming  wife,  sons  Thomas 
and  William,  one  daughter,  two  brothers  and  two  sisters,  and  calling  John  Hammond 
and  Nicholas  Hammond  his  uncles,  who  owned  neighboring  land  and  whom  he  appointed 
supervi3ors. 

A  will  of  one  of  these  brothers  in  1658  names  the  families  of  Thomas  and  William, 
his  nephews,  embracing  Samuel  the  emigrant,  who  is  plainly  described  as  a  son  of  Thomas 
and  identified.  No  will  of  Thomas  has  been  traced.  He  was  baptised  in  1605,  and  the 
baptisms  of  seven  children  have  been  found  recorded  from  1632  to  1650,  and  many  of 
them  have  been  traced. 

We  have  stated  enough  to  indicate  the  complete  and  satisfactory  manner  in  which  the 
old  family  has  been  traced,  and  its  full  description  obtained.  It  is  seldom  that  any  Amer- 
ican family  has  obtained  so  old  and  so  complete  a  trace  of  its  direct  English  ancestry. 
The  position  at  "  Lounde  "  was  not  one  for  wealth  or  adventure,  but  (what  is  now  more 
important)  a  grand  one  for  health  and  strength — and  for  acquiring  and  maintaining  in 
safety  bodily  and  mental  vigor.  It  was  a  good  one  for  general  observation,  so  far  as 
knowledge  could  be  obtained,  which  was  gradually  approachmg,  although  badly  inter- 
rupted or  imperfectly  reached. 

There  were  many  surroundings  inciting  attention.  The  old  Castle  of  Tickhill  on  the 
border  of  Yorkshire  was  near  enough  for  its  weekly  market  and  annual  fair  to  be  easily 
attended,  and  for  its  feudal  lords  and  royal  occupants  to  be  known.  Worksop  Manor, 
a  little  farther  south,  formed  from  a  large  priory  which  passed  in  1543  to  Talbot.  Earl  of 
Shrewsbury,  Lieutenant-General  of  the  Army,  and  Lord-Lieutenant  of  several  counties, 
the  mansion  of  which  was  destroyed  in  1761,  was  also  near  enough  for  close  observation, 
with  its  old  boundary  of  Sherwood  Forest. 

Retford  was  the  nearest  town  of  much  size,  twenty-nine  miles  northeast  from  Not- 
tingham, seven  miles  east  from.  Blythe,  one  hundred  and  forty-five  miles  from  London, 
and  seven  miles  west  from  the  Trent,  which  formed  the  interior  boundary  of  Lincoln 
County.  "  Lounde  "  was  a  few  miles  north  of  Retford,  and  two  old  parishes  being  uni- 
ted, the  name  became  ''Sutton  cum  Lounde."  A  few  miles  farther  north  was  Scrooby,  / 
the  old  residence  and  post-office  of  William  Brewster,  who  died  at  Plymouth  in  1642, 
^born  at  Scrooby  in  1566,  whose  family  scattered  widely.  Mansfield  was  an  ancient  town, 
fourteen  miles  north  of  Nottingham— from  which  Mansfield  in  Connecticut  is  alleged  to 
have  been  named.  The  whole  neighborhood  was  full  of  interesting  objects,  and  this  coun- 
try early  had  many  emigrants  from  it. 

One  Thomas,  son  of  Robert  Storrs,  was  living  under  Henry  VIII.,  one  hundred 
years  before  William,  the  ancestor  above  traced,  having  a  son,  John,  and  he  was  connected, 
through  his  mother,  with  the  Saviles  and  Sherrys.  A  branch  of  the  family  (like  Wash- 
ington's) is  traced  back  to  Lancashire. 

These  may  all  be  too  remote  to  assure  us  of  much  effect  from  old  habits  or  training  ; 
but  if  we  see  some  peculiarity  crop  out  in  descendants,  we  may  look  back  for  its  origin. 
The  Talbot  family  had  many  branches,  including  the  Sutton,  Dudley,  and  Sayile  families, 
which  the  curious  may  study  ;  and  if  Irving,  or  Thomas  Miller,  were  to  describe  the  "  old 
home,"  we  think  some  of  these  would  be  drawn  out  and  some  of  the  Hammonds. 

It  strikes  attention  that  the  first  American  Storrs  arrived  here  in  1662,  about  the 
time  when  some  of  the  Quakers  first  quietly  returned  with  Captain  Goldsmith,  assured  of 
some  protection  against  coarse  prosecutions  [N.  Y.  G.  6-=  B.  Rec.  vol.  15,  p.  65);  and 
that,  in  England,  his  cousin  that  remained  there,  under  the  preaching  of  George  Fox, 
joined  the  Quakers;  and  we  have  quite  a  branch  of  Quakers  named  Storrs.  "  Gold- 
smith "  was  a  name  long  favored  by  the  Talbots.  We  can  study  the  long  and  bitter 
civil  wars  in  England,  and  observe  how  the  exemption  of  the  monastery  farmers  from  im- 
pressment or  draft,  as  soldiers,  permitted  fields  to  be  well  cultivated,  and  its  tillers  to 
prosper  amid  most  destructive  combats,  but  excited  the  ire  of  the  active  soldiers  and  es- 
pecially of  the  chiefs  who  wanted  followers,  and  who,  being  trained  to  hard  practices, 
were  often  too  inattentive  to  the  source  of  supplies  or  stores,  and  drove  off  the  peaceable 
Quakers  with  rudeness  and  injustice.  Cannot  we,  by  studying  them,  avoid  some  of  the 
wrongs?  c.  B.  M. 


242  Obituary.  LI'^^X' 

The  Life  of  Admiral  Sir  Isaac  Coffin,  Baronet.  His  English  and  American  An- 
cestors. By  Thomas  C.  Amory.  8vo.  pp.  141.  Boston :  Cupples,  Upham  Bl  Co. 
1886. 

This  admirable  memoir  of  the  Boston-born  British  admiral,  which  is  full  of  interest, 
is  the  address  delivered  by  Mr.  Amory  before  the  New  York  Genealogical  and  Bio- 
graphical Society  expanded  to  its  present  proportions.  It  will  richly  repay  any  pur- 
chasers who  may  be  interested  in  the  story  of  perhaps  the  most  distinguished  of  all  the 
many  thousand  descendants  of  Tristram  Coffin,  the  ancestor  of  all  the  American 
Coffins.  J.  G.  w. 

Personal  Memoirs  of  U.  S.  Grant.  In  Two  Volumes.  Vol.  ii.,  8vo,  pp.  647. 
New  York  :  Charles  L.  Webster  &  Co.  (Published  by  subscription.) 
The  second  volume  of  General  Grant's  Memoirs,  somewhat  larger  than  the  first,  com- 
pletes what  is  in  many  respects  the  most  remarkable  book  of  the  age,  or  of  any  age  ;  re- 
markable in  its  origin,  in  its  simplicity,  and  in  its  sale,  which  has  never  been  equalled 
by  any  similar  work.  Some  months  ago  Mrs.  Grant  received  from  the  publishers,  as 
copyright  on  the  first  volume,  a  check  for  two  hundred  thousand  dollars.  A  similar 
sum  will  be  paid  to  her  by  the  publishers  in  September,  as  the  royalty  on  the  second 
volume.  In  addition  to  this,  it  is  believed  that  the  future  sales  of  the  General's  Memoirs 
at  home  and  abroad  will  bring  up  the  amount  of  copyright  paid  to  the  unparalleled 
amount  of  half  a  million  of  dollars.  j.  g.  \v. 

The  Complete  Works  of  Robert  Burns  (Self-interpreting).  Illustrated  with  Sixty 
Etchings  and  Wood-cuts,  Maps,  and  Fac-similes.  Vol.  i.,  8vo,  pp.  402.  Philadel- 
phia :  Gebbie  &  Co. 

During  the  present  century  there  have  appeared  above  two  hundred  editions  of  the 
poems  of  the  Ayrshire  peasant,  who  struck  the  lyric  chords  with  a  depth  and  truth  of 
passion  such  as  is  to  be  met  with  in  the  songs  of  no  other  nation.  Beginning  with  Dr. 
Currie's,  in  1800,  the  most  important  of  these  have  been  Cunningham's,  Blackie's, 
Chambers',  Waddell's,  Alexander  Smith's,  Gilfillan's,  and  Douglas'.  The  noble  edi- 
tion, the  first  volume  of  which  has  recently  appeared,  promises  to  surpass  all  these, 
and  to  perhaps  elicit  from  the  London  Times  a  similar  compliment  to  the  one  paid  to  a 
work  on  the  poets  and  poetry  of  Scotland,  when  it  said,  "It  is  a  singular  circumstance 
that  the  best  book  of  this  character  should  emanate  from  the  New  World."  The 
editors  of  this  beautiful  and  complete  edition  of  Burns  are  James  Hunter  and  George 
Gebbie,  senior  member  of  the  house  by  whom  it  is  published.  j.  G.  \v. 


OBITUARY. 

Dey. — Mrs.  Lavinia  Agnes  Dey,  the  widow  of  the  Rev.  Richard  Varick  Dey,  died 
at  her  residence,  121  East  Twenty-fourth  Street,  in  this  city,  on  Wednesday  evening, 
March  31,  1886,  at  six  o'clock.  Her  funeral  took  place  from  the  Dutch  Reformed 
Church,  corner  of  Lafayette  Place  and  Fourth  Street,  on  Monday,  April  5,  1886,  and 
her  remains  were  interred  in  the  family  vault  at  Greenwood  Cemetery,  beside  those  of 
her  husband  and  three  children,  who  had  preceded  her  to  the  spirit-land.  Mrs.  Dey  was 
born  in  New  Brunswick,  N.  J.,  November  30,  1805.  She  was  the  daughter  of  the  late 
Colonel  Joseph  Warren  Scott  (an  eminent  jurist  of  the  New  Jersey  bar,  the  memory  of 
whose  powerful  eloquence  still  lives)  and  Jane  Griffiths,  his  wife,  and  granddaughter  of 
Dr.  Moses  Scott,  Senior  Surgeon  and  Physician  of  the  New  Jersey  line  during  the  Revo- 
lution. She  was  left  a  widow  September  20,  1837,  with  four  children,  who  still  survive 
her.  The  entire  maintenance  and  training  of  the  young  family  devolved  wholly  upon 
her,  and  doubtless  developed  more  fully  those  admirable  traits  and  that  force  of  character 
so  conspicuous  to  those  who  knew  her  best.  As  a  mother  she  will  never  be  forgotten. 
The  influence  of  her  good  judgment,  great  firmness,  wisdom,  patience,  and  perseverance, 
combined  with  that  unwearying  love  that  counted  nothing  a  sacrific'e  th^nnured  to  their 
welfare,  were  brought  to  bear  upon  their  early  years.  "Her  children  arise  up  and  call 
her  blessed."  To  rare  personal  beauty  Mrs.  Dey  united  intellectual  gifts  of  no  common 
order — her  thoroughly  well-balanced  mind,  clear  discernment  of  character,  bold  and  fear- 
less expression  of  opinion,  based  upon  the  quick  perception  of  the  right,  made  her  a  true 
and  valued  friend  to  those  who  sought  her  counsels.  She  was  of  a  bright  and  cheerful  spirit, 
filled  with  generous  sympathies — simple  in  her  habits,  yet  always  courteous  and  dignified. 


i8S6.]  Obituary,  243 

Her  undimmed  eyes  sparkled  with  the  vivacity  of  youth,  as  she  drew  upon  the  storehouse 
of  her  retentive  memory  of  other  days  for  the  entertainment  of  her  listeners  ;  her  accuracy 
as  to  events  and  dates  being  remarkable. — Hospitable  and  domestic  she  looked  well  to  the 
ways  of  her  household  ;  proverl^ial  for  industry,  every  moment  was  spent  as  by  one  who  must 
give  a  strict  account.  Not  only  was  her  needle  employed  for  her  family  and  self,  but  her 
charities  were  largely  the  "  fruit  of  her  hands" — the  busy  fingers  fashioned  with  ease  the 
beautiful  articles  that  found  ready  sale  to  benefit  the  cause  for  which  they  had  been  made. 
Her  charities  were  broad,  unbounded  by  creed  or  country,  her  large  heart  ever  respond- 
ing to  the  distressed  and  suffering.  For  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  century  she  was  a 
manager  of  "The  Society  for  the  Relief  of  Poor  Widows  with  Small  Children."  Nobly 
she  did  her  work.  The  blessing  of  him  that  was  ready  to  perish  came  upon  her,  and 
she  caused  the  widow's  heart  to  sing  for  joy — her  interest  never  flagged  in  the  poor  and 
needy,  and  her  connection  with  her  beloved  society  ceased  only  with  life.  The  God  who 
sustained  her  in  the  adversities  and  trials  of  her  early  widowhood  was  ever  her  staff  and 
comfort,  even  to  the  old  age  she  was  vouchsafed.  Those  who  lieard  the  patient  utterance, 
"  O  God,  thy  will  be  done,"  and  saw  the  smile  that  illumed  her  beautiful  countenance 
when  she  sank  to  rest,  cannot  doubt  that  she  has  "entered  into  the  joy  of  her  Lord." 
Her  husband,  the  Rev.  Richard  Varick  Dey,  to  whom  she  was  married,  September  11, 
1822,  was  the  eldest  son  of  Anthony  Dey,  a  prominent  lawyer  of  this  city,  and  Catharine 
Laidlie,  his  wife,  who  was  the  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Archibald  Laidlie  and  Mary  Hoff- 
man. Dr.  Laidlie  was  the  first  minister  called  to  preach  in  English  in  the  Dutch  Church 
in  this  city.  Mr.  Dey  was  a  very  gifted  orator — inheriting  from  his  grandfather  much 
of  that  great  requisite  in  public  men.  Two  of  the  old  representative  families  of  this  city, 
of  one  hundred  and  twenty  years  ago,  have  nearly  died  out — their  names  are  extinct. 
Captain  John  Griffiths  has  only  female  descendants,  and  the  Rev.  Archibald  Laidlie  has 
but  six  living  female  descendants — and  they  are  the  only  representatives  of  William 
Laidlie  and  Jean  Dickson,  of  Kelso,  Scotland. 

Remarks  of  Rev.  Doctor  Chambers  of  New  York,  at  the  Funeral  of  Mrs. 
Lavinia  Agnes  Dey  : 

"  About  a  century  and  a  quarter  ago  the  increase  of  the  English-speaking  population 
of  this  city  led  the  Dutch  Church  to  consider  the  propriety  of  conducting  some  of  their 
public  services  in  that  tongue.  The  very  proposition  of  such  a  thing  was  extremely 
offensive  to  many,  and  when  the  matter  took  shape,  a  violent  opposition  manifested  itself. 
This  went  so  far  that  the  civil  courts  were  invoked  to  interfere,  on  the  ground  that  the 
charter  of  the  church  would  be  violated.  This,  however,  failed,  and  the  malcontents 
were  shown  to  be  in  a  minority.  Not  a  few  of  them  went  over  to  the  English  Church, 
saying  that  if  there  were  to  be  English  preaching  at  all,  they  preferred  to  have  it  entire. 
Still  enough  remained  to  require  the  consistory  to  proceed  with  caution  in  calling  a  min- 
ister for  the  new  service.  It  was  necessary  to  have  a  man  a  master  of  the  English  tongue 
and  at  the  same  time  acquainted  with  tlie  Dutch,  one  acceptable  to  the  Classis  of  Am- 
sterdam— without  whose  approval  nothing  could  be  done — and  one  whose  character  was 
established  for  learning,  soundness  of  doctrine  and  of  life,  true  piety,  and  ability  in  the 
pulpit,  and  also  for  ptudence  and  tact  in  the  conduct  of  affairs.  A  kind  Providence  seems 
to  have  prepared  for  the  people  just  the  minister  they  needed. 

"  Owing  to  the  close  intercourse  between  Great  Britain  and  Holland  there  were  sev- 
eral churches  in  the  Low  Countries  composed  of  English-speaking  people,  ministered  to 
by  their  own  countrymen,  yet  in  ecclesiastical  connection  with  the  Dutch  Church.  One 
of  these  was  a  Scotch  congregation  at  Vlissingen,  over  whom  had  been  regularly  installed 
the  Rev.  Archibald  Laidlie.  Mr.  Laidlie,  born  at  Kelso,  Scotland,  had  been  liberally 
educated,  and  taken  his  degree  at  the  University  of  Edinburgh.  Settled  at  Vlissingen, 
he  prosecuted  a  very  successful  ministry  there,  growing  daily  in  the  respect  and  confidence 
of  all  who  knew  him.  The  church  at  New  York  were  advised  by  their  friends  and  cor- 
respondents beyond  sea  to  call  Mr.  Laidlie.  They  did  so,  with  the  cordial  approval  of 
the  Classis  of  Amsterdam,  and  the  call  was  accepted.  Mr.  Laidlie  arrived  in  New  York 
in  the  spring  of  1764,  and  immediately  entered  upon  his  work.  He  was  earnest,  labori- 
ous, and  successful.  There  was  a  great  deal  of  party  spirit  among  the  people,  owing  not 
only  to  the  introduction  of  the  English  service,  but  also  to  the  two  parties  (Coetus  and  Con- 
ferentie)  which  then  divided  the  denomination.  But  the  new  minister  conducted  himself 
with  so  much  propriety  in  word  and  act  that  he  escaped  collision  of  every  kind  and  won 
the  entire  confidence  of  the  whole  people.  Everywhere  and  always  his  influence  was  cast 
on  tha  side  of  peace ;  and  this,  united  with  his  fervid  pungency  in  the  pulpit,  rendered 
his  short  ministry  of  about  eleven  years  a  great  and  lasting  blessing  to  the  church. 


244  Obituary.  [J^^'y>  i8S6. 

"  When  the  Revolution  broke  out  he  was  compelled  to  leave  the  city,  and  retired 
to  Red  Hook,  where,  several  years  before,  he  had  married  Mary,  the  daughter  of  Colonel 
Martin  Hoffman  and  Catharine  Benson,  who  made  him  very  happy  in  his  domestic  rela- 
tions. Colonel  Hoft'man  is  said  to  have  been  a  man  of  considerable  property  and  wide 
influence.  While  here  Dr.  Laidlie's  health  (he  had  received  the  degree  of  S.T.D.  from 
the  College  of  Nassau  Hall  in  1770)  gradually  became  enfeebled,  and  in  1779  he  died. 
His  widow  survived  him  very  many  years,  not  ending  her  days  until  1825,  when  what  of 
her  was  mortal  was  interred  in  this  city.  Dr.  Laidlie  was  blessed  with  several  children, 
but  none  of  his  sons  left  issue,  so  that  the  name  has  died  out.  Still,  the  lineage  has  con- 
tinued in  connection  with  the  old  church.  His  eldest  daughter,  Catharine,  was  married 
in  iSoo  to  Anthony  Dey,  a  well-known  and  influential  citizen,  who  was  born  in  New 
Jersey,  and  had  extensive  connections  in  his  native  State  and  in  the  city  of  his  adoption. 
The  oldest  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dey  was  the  husband  of  the  lady  whose  mortal  remains 
now  lie  before  us.  The  Rev.  Richard  Varick  Dey  was  a  man  of  very  unusual  abilities, 
and  I  still  freshly  remember  the  incidents  I  used  to  hear  when  a  boy  at  Rutgers  College, 
fifty  years  ago,  respecting  his  versatile  accomplishments  and  his  power  as  a  public  speaker. 
In  1S22  he  married  Lavinia  Agnes  Scott,  the  daughter  of  Joseph  Warren  Scott,  Esq., 
long  known  as,  in  his  day,  at  the  head  of  the  New  Jersey  bar  ;  and,  as  the  late  Dr.  Alex- 
ander McClelland  once  said  to  me,  the  most  effective  man  before  a  jury  that  the  whole 
country  contained.  Mr.  Dey  was  settled  for  a  number  of  years  at  Greenfield  Hill, 
Conn.,  and  died  near  Chatham,  N.  J.,  in  the  year  1S37  ;  so  that  the  friend  whose  loss 
we  this  day  mourn  has  been  a  widow  for  nearly  fifty  years.  Though  so  long-lived  and 
possessing  such  extraordinary  vitality,  her  constitution  was  always  delicate,  and  time  and 
again  she  was  attacked  with  an  illness  that  threatened  to  prove  fatal.  Throughout  all 
these  trials  and  the  other  vicissitudes  of  her  widowed  life  she  maintained  the  cheerfulness 
and  vivacity  which  were  constitutional,  and  also  the  serene  patience  which  springs  from  a 
Christian  faith.  The  pious  confidence  and  peaceful  disposition  which  animated  her  hus- 
band's grandfather  reappeared  in  her,  and  made  those  whose  tender  and  loving  assiduities 
were  required  by  her  broken  health  feel  it  a  privilege  to  minister  at  her  bedside. 

"  And  now  what  can  I  say  to  these  mourners  who  are  to  see  their  beloved  dead  laid 
away  in  the  narrow  house?  Reason  tells  you  that  for  her  to  depart  was  far  better,  as  it 
undoubtedly  is,  but  the  heart  is  not  swayed  by  the  convictions  of  the  intellect,  and  you 
can  think  only  of  your  sore  and  irreparable  loss,  of  the  endeared  form  and  gracious  feat- 
ures which  you  will  see  no  more.  Still,  remember  that  the  parting  is  not  final,  that  the 
peculiar  tenet  of  our  holy  religion  bids  us  be  sure  that  the  loved  and  lost  will  be  restored 
again,  and  that  in  a  form  immeasurably  enhanced  and  glorified.  Not  simply  does  the 
soul  live  on  in  the  unseen  state,  but  in  the  great  day  its  old  companion  and  tenement, 
the  body,  will  be  raised  up  in  the  likeness  of  the  Lord  Jesus  as  He  now  is,  at  His  Father's 
right  hand.  As  the  Apostle  said  when  announcing  this  truth,  '  Comfort  yourselves  with 
these  words.' 

"  And  let  me  entreat  you,  dear  friends,  as  you  look  back  upon  a  lineage  so  illustrated 
by  Christian  excellence,  keep  the  blessed  heritage  that  comes  to  you  from  the  generations 
that  have  gone  before,  make  full  proof  of  it  for  your  own  enjoyment  and  peace  and 
progress,  and  pray  God  that  it  may  go  down  to  those  yet  to  be  born,  so  that  if  the 
name  of  Laidlie  has  died  out,  yet  his  spirit  and  character  and  influence  may  be  continued 
in  an  endless  succession." 

Robertson. — Right  Rev.  Charles  Franklin  Robertson,  S.  T.D. ,  second  Bishop  of 
the  Episcopal  Church  in  Missouri,  died  in  St.  Louis,  May  i,  1S86.  He  was  of  an  old 
family  in  New  York  City,  where  he  was  born,  March  2,  1835.  He  graduated  at  Yale 
College  in  1859,  and  at  the  General  Theological  Seminary  in  New  York  in  1862. 
Before  his  election  as  bishop,  in  1S6S,  he  was  rector  of  St.  Mark's  Church,  Malone, 
N.  Y.,  for  six  years,  and  subsequently  for  a  short  time  of  St.  James'  Church,  Batavia, 
N.  Y.      Under  his  administration  the  Episcopal  Church  in  Missouri  made  great  progress. 

From  Columbia  College,  in  his  native  city,  he  received  the  degree  of  S.T.D.,  in  1869. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Missouri  Historical  Society  and  of  the  Social  Science  Associa- 
tion, Corresponding  Secretary  for  Missouri  of  the  National  Conference  of  Charities  and 
Corrections,  and  President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  Nashotah  Theological  Seminary, 
in  Wisconsin,  and  a  subscriber  to  the  Record  of  this  Society. 

In  1869  Bishop  Robertson  married  Miss  Rebecca  Duane,  great-granddaughter  of  the 
first  mayor  of  New  York.      With  three  sons  and  a  daughter  she  survives. 

The  above  sketch  is  compiled  from  an  obituary  sketch  in  the  St.  Louis  Daily  Globe- 
Democrat,  May  2,  1886.  E.  E. 


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Vol.  XVII.  NEW  YORK,   OCTOBER,   1886.  No.  4. 


JOHN    DELAFIELD,    THE    ENGLISHMAN. 


By  Rev.  William  Hall,  New  York  City. 


(  IVitk  an  engraving  of  Sussiuick.) 

Early  in  the  eventful  year  1783,  the  City  of  New  York  began  to  re- 
ceive valuable  accessions  to  its  citizenship  from  the  Old  World.  English 
gentlemen  of  superior  intelligence,  social  standing,  and  some  with  large 
means — the  ancient  unities  now  again  established — hastened  to  our  shores, 
to  seek  fortunes,  find  new  homes,  or,  what  is  also  very  probable,  to  taste 
with  us  the  new-born  blessings  of  republican  liberty.  Of  this  number,  in- 
cluding the  subject  of  the  ensuing  record,  were  Messrs.  Charles  Wilkes, 
John  Church,  William  Constable,  and  others,  not  to  mention  here  emi- 
nent foreigners  from  Continental  Europe,  who  likewise  subsequently  dis- 
tinguished themselves  in  this  city  and  State  as  merchants  or  civilians. 
John  Delafield,  Esq.,  from  London,  arrived  off  Sandy  Hook,  April  4,  1783, 
and  at  six  o'clock  the  next  morning  landed  in  New  York,  in  company 
with  Captain  Barnwell,  its  commander,  from  the  British  Letter  of  Marque 
Vigilant,  as  noticed  in  the  city  papers  of  that  date. 

In  proof  that  this  enterprising  young  Briton  did  not  come  hither  as  a 
moneyless  adventurerj  as  well  as  in  evidence  of  his  high  social  position  in  the 
great  city  he  had  left,  and  of  his  purpose  to  stay  here  eji  permanence,  it 
may  be  mentioned  that,  soon  after  his  coming,  he  resigned  his  membership 
of  "  White's  Coffee-House,"  the  most  exclusive  of  the  London  clubs  in 
those  days,  at  the  same  time  sending  his  dues  for  one  year  as  being  pos- 
sibly in  arrears.  He  also,  somewhere  near  that  date,  showed  his  native 
independence  of  character,  and  not  a  little  excited  the  indignation  of  his 
English  friends,  by  the  announcement  that  he  was  about  to  become  an 
American  citizen  !  This  was  accomplished  by  a  special  act  of  legislature. 
Of  Mr.  Delafield's  business  antecedents  in  England  little  seems  to  be 
known,  but  that  he  was  a  member,  as  it  was  said,  of  one  of  the  noted  brew- 
ing houses  of  London.  His  partner  complained  that  he  gave  little  atten- 
tion to  business,  and  he  himself  afterward  wrote  that  real  work  in  England, 
in  the  midst  of  friends,  was  impossible.  This,  doubtless,  was  to  him  a 
strong  7notif  to  come  to  this  country,  and  here,  on  entirely  new  ground, 
to  strike  out  for  himself. 


246  John  Delafield,  the  Englishman.  [Oct., 

John  Delafield  represented  a  very  old  English  family,  whose  seat  was 
Ley  born  Grange,  County  Kent.  For  particulars  concerning  them  see 
Burke's  "  Commoners  of  England,"  and  his  "  Peerage,"  under  the  head  of 
"  Foreign  Titles,"  the  German  "  Gothaische  Gradichen  Haliser,"  and, 
finally,  what  English  genealogists  regard  of  the  very  highest  value,  the 
name  is  included  in  the  oldest  list  of  the  gentry  of  Buckinghamshire,  re- 
turned by  the  commissioners  in  the  thirteenth  year  of  King  Henry  VI., 
1433,  viz.  :  Roberti  Delafield.  This  is  the  same  gentleman  who  had  mar- 
ried, about  twenty  years  before,  Alice,  daughter  of  Sir  Reginald  de  Grey.* 
A  ruined  castle  in  a  pass  among  the  Vosges  Mountains,  not  far  from 
Colmar,  in  Alsace,  still  bears  the  name  De  le  Feld,  and  was  for  centuries 
the  continental  feudal  home  of  the  race.  They  are  said  to  have  had  large 
possessions  in  Alsace  and  Lorraine,  and  are  frequently  mentioned  in  the 
chronicles  of  the  local  wars  of  those  countries. 

Prior  to  1533  there  were  two  stately  monuments  to  two  of  the  Counts 
dela  Feld,  in  the  cathedral  of  Strasbourg.  The  Croix  (Tor  de  la  Fehl,  their 
ancient  badge,  is  still  the  coat-armor  of  the  family.  Hubertus  de  la  Feld,  the 
first  emigrant  from  Alsace  to  England,  received  a  grant  of  land  in  the  sec- 
ond year  of  William  the  Conqueror.  Burke  traces  the  family  by  their  in- 
termarriage, conveyances  in  land,  and  by  their  quarterings,  from  father  to 
son,  in  direct  descent  in  the  male  line,  from  this  Hubertus  to  John  Dela- 
field, the  first  emigrant  from  England  to  America.  When  he  left  his  native 
land  the  family  there  consisted  of  Joseph,  his  younger  and  only  brother, 
and  their  three  sisters.  Two  of  these  ladies  died  unmarried  ;  the  third, 
Martha,  became  the  wife  of  William  Arnold,  Esq.,  of  Slateward,  Isle  of 
Wight;  and  was  the  mother  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Thomas  Arnold,  of  Rugby  (by 
many  considered  one  of  the  ablest,  as  he  certainly  was  one  of  the  best, 
men  that  England  ever  produced),  and  of  Lydia,  the  beautiful  Countess  of 
Cavan.  Joseph  married  Frances,  daughter  of  Christian  Combe,  Esq.,  of 
Cobham  Park,  in  Surrey,  for  many  years  member  of  Parliament.  He  was 
the  founder  of  the  house  of  "  Combe,  Delafield  &  Co.,"  who  supplied  half  of 
the  British  Empire  with  beer.  This  brother  had  several  children,  the  eldest 
of  whom,  Joseph,  is  the  only  one  who  has  left  descendants.  In  connection 
with  his  brother  William,  he  carried  on  the  business  of  the  house,  and 
greatly  added  to  their  already  enormous  wealth.  Their  brother,  John, 
married  Lady  Cecil  Pery,  daughter  of  the  Earl  of  Limerick.  He  took 
orders,  assumed  the  German  title  of  Count,  and  finally  went  over  to  Rome. 
It  is  of  historical  interest  to  add  that  the  Delafields  owe  their  German 
title  to  the  heroism  of  a  John  Delafield,  from  whom  the  founder  of  the 
American  family  was  descended  in  the  sixth  degree.  He  took  arms  under 
Prince  Eugene,  distinguished  himself  at  the  battle  of  Zenta,  where,  with 
his  own  hands,  he  captured  a  Turkish  standard,  and  was  therefore  created 
a  Count  of  the  Holy  Roman  Empire,  with  remainder  of  the  title  derived  to 
his  descendants,  male  and  female,  of  his  name.  He  was  also  granted  the 
privilege  of  placing  his  arms  on  those  of  the  Austrian  Empire.  The  eldest 
son  of  the  soldier  remained  in  England  ;  the  second,  Count  Leopold,  was 
the  father  of  the  Counts  de  la  Feld  in  Germany,  now  extinct  in  the  male 
line ;  in  the  female  they  are  still  represented  by  several  families  in  that 
country.  The  ''Dictionaries  of  the  Counts  of  Germany"  mentions  the 
three  branches  of  the  Delafields,  the  English,  Italian,  and  the  American, 
carried  out  accurately  to  the  two  marriages  of  John  Delafield,  Jr.,  an  emi- 

*  Fuller's  British  Worthies. 


i886.]  John  Delafield,  the  Englishman.  247 

nent  former  Wall  Street  banker,  and  financier,  as  well  as  literary  man,  of 
this  city,  the  eldest  son  of  the  first  comer. 

Joseph,  the  grandson  of  the  first  founder  of  the  London  firm,  married 
an  Italian  lady  of  rank  and  settled  in  Italy.  He  left  two  sons,  who  were 
lately  living  in  Naples  with  their  mother.  Another  descendant,  Edward 
Thomas,  devoted  himself  to  music,  and  endeavored,  as  several  noblemen 
have,  to  establish  the  Italian  opera  on  English  soil — an  effort  which  cost 
him  ^200,000  sterling.  Old  London  papers  have  nnich  to  say  of  his  de- 
termined ardor  that  failure  could  not  quench.  A  friendly  intercourse  was 
maintained  between  the  American  Delafields  and  their  English  cousins 
until  the  death  of  William  Delafield  several  years  ago  in  London.  Two 
lads  but  lately  at  school,  are  believed  to  be  at  present  the  only  representa- 
tives of  the  ancient  family  name  and  estate  in  England. 

John  Delafield  came  indeed  with  the  olive-branch  of  his  crest  in  his  hands, 
having  in  his  possession  a  copy  of  the  treaty  of  peace,  not  yet  officially  ac- 
knowledged in  our  land,  and  thus  had  the  honor  of  first  giving  the  tidings  to 
this  city,  which  caused  great  joy,  and  post-horses  were  dispatched  to  the  neigh- 
boring towns  with  the  good  news.  He  brought  a  considerable  sum  of  money 
with  him,  entered  immediately  into  an  extensive  business,  in  which  he  was  very 
successful,  and  was  considered  the  richest  capitalist  in  the  State  at  the  time 
when  the  Napoleonic  blockade  edicts  swept  our  commerce  from  the  ocean 
in  1807.  After  paying  every  demand  made  upon  him  he  devoted  the 
moderate  competence  that  remained  to  the  education  of  his  children,  seven 
of  whom  were  sons,  all  of  whom  lived  nobly  to  repay  his  wise  forethought. 
And  "  with  this  patrimony  "  he  could  well  say  to  them,  as  he  did,  at  last, 
as  by  prophetic  foresight,  "  honor,  industry,  and  perseverance  will  make 
your  success  certain." 

With  reference  to  the  majority  of  the  claims  of  American  families  to 
descent  from  the  gentry  or  nobility  of  England,  now  so  often  put  forth, 
much  scepticism  may  be  reasonably  indulged.  In  the  case  of  the  Dela- 
fields there  is  no  room  for  doubt.  By  the  close  intercourse  maintained  for 
many  years  between  the  American  and  English  families,  social,  legal,  and 
epistolary,  and  until  a  late  period  the  genuineness  of  such  a  genealogical 
nexus  is  vouched  for  by  the  clearest  proofs.  The  family  in  this  city  are 
said  to  have  great  bundles  of  letters  addressed  to  John  Delafield,  the  first 
of  their  race  here,  from  his  brother  Joseph,  his  three  sisters,  and  from  his 
brother-in-law,  William  Arnold,  in  England.  Containing,  as  they  do,  ac- 
counts of  international  matters  immediately  after  the  close  of  the  Revo- 
lutionary War,  and  reports  very  complimentary  to  Americans,  both  public 
and  private,  who  visited  England  with  letters  from  John  Delafield,  their 
publication  would  doubtless  be  of  much  more  than  family  interest.  Sur- 
prise is  expressed  in  some  of  them  at  "  the  culture  of  the  late  rebel  farm- 
ers' sons,  some  of  them  half  Dutch,"  etc. 

Relative  to  his  ancient  English  pedigree  it  is  a  noteworthy  fact  to  add, 
and  one  we  judge  to  be  very  much  to  the  credit  of  his  strong  old  English 
sense,  in  which  New  Englanders  also  claim  a  share  by  honest  heredity,  as 
well  as  freedom  from  all  offensively  aristocratic  ideas,  that  John  Delafield, 
the  early  Americanized  English  gentleman,  whose  Old  New  York  record  is 
here  being  recalled,  was  strongly  of  the  opinion  that  any  public  knowledge 
of  such  facts,  or  much  reference  to  them,  might  prove  an  injury  to  the 
future  prospects  of  his  children  in  Republican  America.  This  was  a  mat- 
ter in  his  view  of  purely  personal  interest,  to   be  confined   to  the  family 


248  John  Delafield,  the  £nglish?nan.  [Oct., 

circle,  and  about  which  their  neighbors  of  course  had  no  concern.  Times 
have  changed,  but  without  doubt  his  descendants  hold  much  to  the  same 
opinion.  Yet  it  seems  relevant  here  to  remark,  that  from  a  general  genea- 
logical point  of  view,  of  natural  interest  to  all  who  love  to  look  back  to  the 
European  fatherlands  of  their  first  ancestors  in  this  country,  the  Delafield 
family-tree  is  exceptionally  valuable  and  notable,  both  for  its  antiquity  and 
precision,  although  upon  its  record  there  may  be  no  names  of  general  his- 
torical importance.  And  we  add,  conclusivel)',  on  this  topic,  that  from  ex- 
isting data  it  may  be  declared,  that  this  ancient  family  ever  preserved  the 
vigor  to  hold  their  own,  married  well,  and  lived  from  generation  to  genera- 
tion as  country  gentlemen  and  soldiers.  When  in  the  last  century  reverses 
came,  the  two  brothers,  John  and  Joseph,  entered  courageously  into  the 
ventures  and  labors  of  business  life,  and  each  in  his  chosen  field  by  the 
united  force  of  talents  and  integrity  achieved  an  enviable  success.  And 
this,  we  are  assured,  has  been  not  less  so  as  resultants  of  similar  ante- 
cedents in  their  family  history,  since  on  both  sides  of  the  water  their  repre- 
sentatives have  proved  alike  true  in  every  respect  to  the  worthy  memories 
and  influences  of  the  past.  As  to  those  of  them  who  have  borne  the  name 
in  this  city  for  several  generations  down  to  the  present  day  it  is  needless  to 
say  to  well-informed  New  York  citizens  how  happily  and  how  beneficially 
to  all  its  interests,  commercial,  social,  literary,  and  religious,  they  have 
identified  themselves  with  this  great  metropolis. 

John  Delafield,  the  new  citizen  of  1 783,  was  demonstrably  the  first  of 
the  name  in  America,  as  also  the  first  reported  in  the  New  York  Directory 
of  17S6 — the  earliest  one  in  this  city,  one  year  later  than  Philadelphia's 
first.  He  is  there  denoted  as  a  broker,  at  28  Water  Street,  then  probably 
fronting  the  river,  or  at  least  partially.  At  that  period,  the  New  York 
broker  was  both  the  banker  and  real  estate  or  land  agent  of  the  present. 
For  several  years  directly  succeeding  his  settlement  in  New  York  the 
newspapers  of  the  time  abound  with  his  advertisements  in  both  of  these 
lines,  showing  that  his  business  was  extensive  and  exceeded  by  few  or  none 
of  his  contemporaries.  With  respect  to  his  quite  distinctive  family  sur- 
name, it  is  of  some  general  interest  to  record,  that  neither  he  nor  his  sons, 
until  they  reached  middle  life,  would  consent  that  others  should  assume  it, 
justly  regarding  it  as  personal  property.  There  are  said  to  have  been 
many  curious  mstances  where  those  who,  unrightfully  calling  themselves 
Delafield,  were  compelled  to  take  another  name.  In  one  case,  a  convict, 
endeavoring  to  conceal  himself,  took  the  name  and  established  himself  in 
New  York.  Remonstrated  with,  he  gave  trouble  and  claimed  that  he 
would  call  himself  what  he  pleased,  and  only  took  another  name  when,  his 
antecedents  being  inquired  into,  he  was  threatened  with  exposure.  So 
decided  was  this  feeling  that  a  street  was  not  called  Delafield,  "  lest,  as 
has  been  the  case  with  most  of  our  city  streets,  it  should  become  god- 
parent to  the  nameless  unfortunate."  Of  late  years,  however,  all  this  has 
changed,  and  there  are  so-called  Delafields  in  many  parts  of  the  country, 
of  other  and  various  origins. 

With  reference  to  the  further  business  relations  of  John  Delafield,  the 
primal  head  of  the  New  York  family,  we  may  add  that  his  name  appears  on 
the  list  of  the  first  members  of  the  "  New  York  Chamber  of  Commerce," 
established  in  1784,  the  next  year  after  his  arrival  in  this  city.  During  his 
business  years  he  lived  for  a  considerable  period  in  Wall  Street,  and  at 
other  times  in  Water  Street,  as  also  in  Pearl,  near  the  Battery. 


1 886. J  Johti  Delafield,  the  Englisliman.  249 

After  the  loss  of  the  bulk  of  his  fortune,  he  never  engaged  actively  in 
business,  although,  for  a  sliort  time,  calling  himself  a  broker,  but  had  an 
office  in  the  Tontine  Building,  of  which  he  was  an  original  trustee  and 
founder.  The  Tontine  Association  was  got  up  at  one  of  the  Club  dinners 
at  his  country-seat,  near  the  present  Astoria.  He  was  also  one  of  the 
original  directors  of  the  New  York  Branch  United  States  Bank.  His  honor- 
able and  fortunate  career  as  a  merchant,  from  first  to  last,  is  unimpeach- 
able. 

Barrett's  "  Old  New  York  Merchants,"  in  some  respects  an  historically 
valuable  and  praiseworthy  collection  of  personal  and  conmiercial  reminis- 
cences of  Old  New  York,  incorrectly  states  that  John  Delafield  failed  in 
business,  which  we  have  authority  for  saying  he  never  did,  being  one  of 
the  few  gentlemen  underwriters  who  paid  every  loss.  As  one  of  these,  of 
heaviest  liabilities,  after  the  Berlin  and  Milan  decrees,  he  paid  within  a 
short  period,  $200,000.  John  B.  Church  was  another  of  the  great  under- 
writers then  who  is  said  to  have  met  all  his  losses. 

In  the  very  next  year  after  reaching  our  shores,  and  mercantile  self- 
establishment  in  this  city,  Mr.  Delafield  still  further  and  very  happily  con- 
summated his  American  denization  by  taking  to  himself  a  wife  from  among 
the  fair  daughters  of  the  land,  the  public  notice  of  which  we  here  quote 
from  Loudon's  Neiv  York  Packet^  of  December  13,  1784,  as  follows  : 

"Married. — On  Saturday  last,  Mr.  John  Delafield,  merchant,  to  Miss 
Nancy  Hallett,  daughter  of  Mr,  Joseph  Hallett  of  this  city,  merchant." 

This  was  undoubtedly,  from  every  point  of  view,  a  very  wise  marriage 
covenant,  and  it  proved  a  much  blessed  union,  in  which  the  most  whole- 
some Christian  vutues  of  faith  and  truth  evidently  ruled  over  the  domestic 
sanctuary.  And  the  thirteen  children  of  that  happy,  old-fashioned  pair,  we 
take  to  have  been  in  beautiful  verification  of  the  expressive  Delafield 
family  motto  :  Insignia  fortmice paria  (see  Psalm  cxxviii.,  3). 

This  highborn  and  sagacious  son  of  Albion  attested  again  his  superior- 
ity to  all  hereditary  royalistic  and  class  prejudices,  by  giving  his  heart  and 
hand  to  the  daughter  of  a  pronounced  republican,  as  also  a  firm  Presby- 
terian in  his  ecclesiastical  status.  Mr.  Hallett  had  served  on  the  New  York 
"  Committee  of  Safety,"  was  one  of  the  bold  "  Sons  of  Liberty  "  in  the 
early  stages  of  the  Revolutionary  struggle,  and  subsequently  a  "  conspicuous 
member  of  the  first  three  Provincial  Congresses  of  this  State."  He  was 
also  a  member  of  the  historical  Wall  Street  Presbyterian  Church,  in  which 
religious  fellowship  he  had  such  distinguished  associates  as  the  Livingstons, 
Vanbrugh  and  William,  Governor  of  New  Jersey  during  the  Revolutior, 
William  Smith,  the  historian  of  New  York,  and  his  kinsman,  William  Pear- 
tree  Smith,  another  prominent  patriot  of  this  city,  subsequently  of  Eliza- 
beth, N.  J.,  there  sacrificing  his  large  fortune  on  the  altar  of  his  country's 
independence,  and,  finally,  the  venerable  Nathaniel  Hazard,  Mr.  Hallett' s 
father-in-law,  one  of  the  chief  pillars  of  that  First  Presbyterian  Church  in 
the  City  of  New  York. 

Mr.  Hazard,  placed  on  record  as  "  an  eminent  Christian,"  was  a  cor- 
respondent of  that  uncommonly  good  man  and  able  Governor  of  colonial 
New  Jersey,  His  Excellency  Jonathan  Belcher,  President  Finley,  of  Prince- 
ton, and  other  noted  worthies  of  that  age  in  our  land. 

Mrs.  Nathaniel  Hazard,  the  grandmother  of  Mrs.  Ann  Hallett  Dela- 
field, was  a  woman  of  remarkable  mental  and  moral  endowments,  as  family 
tradition  reports.     Her  society  as  such  was  much  sought  after  by  the  ruJ- 


2 CO  John  Delafieldy  the  Englishman.  [Oct., 

tured  of  that  day,  including  the  clergymen  of  this  city  and  of  neighboring 
places.  She  could  converse  in  French  as  well  as  in  the  Dutch  language, 
and  it  is  said  that  she  was  educated  in  France.  Yet,  singular  to  say,  her 
paternity  has  as  yet  defied  the  collective  wisdom  of  the  New  York  Bio- 
graphical and  Genealogical  Society  satisfactorily  to  decide.  This  vener- 
able lady  lived  to  her  ninety-eighth  year,  and  died  at  the  residence  of  her 
daughter,  Mrs.  Hallett,  228  Duane  Street,  May  27,  181 1. 

The  picture  accompanying  this  article  gives  a  correct  view  of  Mr. 
Delafield's  country  seat  on  Long  Island,  a  mansion  still  standing  on  the 
East  River  bank  and  opposite  more  modern  Yorkville  in  this  city.  It 
was  built  by  him  in  1791,  and  began  to  be  his  family  residence  in  the 
spring  of  1792.  And  as  it  was  so  for  many  years  and  was  regarded  as  the 
most  spacious  and  elegant  of  all  such  seats  in  the  vicinity  of  New  York,  if 
not  anywhere  in  this  country,  we  offer  no  apology  for  introducing  here 
some  particulars  respecting  old  "Sunswick,"  for  that  was  its  name,  of 
far-back  English  origin,  and  not  unwisely  perpetuated  by  a  present  repre- 
sentative of  this  family,  as  that  of  his  summer  residence  in  West  Hampton, 
L.  I.  The  early  scenic  and  rural  surroundings  of  this  old  place  must  have 
become  much  transformed  during  the  intervening  years.  Blackwell's  Isl- 
and, which  it  faces,  the  plantation  and  residence  of  that  ancient  New  York 
family,  interconnected  with  the  Halletts  of  Hallett's  Cove,  was  doubtless 
then  thickly  wooded,  as  also  the  contiguous  shores  on  each  river  side.  On 
Manhattan  Island  opposite,  the  bold  bluffs,  crested  with  lofty  trees,  were 
soon  after  crowned  with  other  wealthy  citizens'  country  houses,  among 
which  were  Nathaniel  Prime's,  Archibald  Grade's,  on  the  beautiful  knoll 
at  Horen  Hook,  both  still  standing,  and  Commodore  Chauncey's. 

Sunsvvick  was  built  partly  in  copy  of  an  English  manor  house.  Its 
builder  and  architect  was  a  Mr.  Newton,  and  its  cost,  discovered  from  old 
account  books,  was  $27,629.90 — an  immense  outlay  on  a  house  at  an  era 
when  millionaires  were  scarce,  and  the  modern  palatial  mansions  of  our 
city  were  strangers  even  to  imagination.  The  dining-room  contained  the 
large  '■'■horse-shoe  table,^'  of  which  many  old  New  Yorkers  of  the  elite  class 
must  have  had  knowledge.  It  was  built  specially  to  accommodate  the 
members  of  the  "  Dinner  Club,"  and  was  also  used  on  other  occasions. 
For  many  years  the  Club  were  invited  to  meet  at  Sunswick,  once  a  fort- 
night during  the  summer  months,  meeting  also  at  other  country  seats  near 
the  city,  but  oftener  at  Sunswick  from  its  greater  proximity.  Lists  of  the 
names  of  members  are  still  extant.  The  gardens  were  famous  for  the  new 
fruits,  flowers,  and  vegetables,  which  were  received  from  England  as  soon 
as  they  appeared  there — all  things  now  common  enough,  but  at  the  time 
unknown  in  this  country.  The  place — about  one  hundred  and  forty  acres 
— now  covers  numerous  house-lots  and  streets  in  the  faded  village  of 
Ravenswood. 

In  the  East  River,  nearly  in  front  of  Sunswick  House,  John  Delafield 
had  built  a  large  stone  basin,  which  was  always  kept  supplied  with  live  tur- 
tle from  the  West  Indies.  The  ruins  of  this  old  basin,  or  of  its  foundation, 
some  years  ago  greatly  puzzled  certain  local  antiquarians,  who,  it  is  believed, 
never  got  at  its  real  use. 

Sunswick,  which  its  first  master  claimed  to  be  "a  bit  of  old  England  in 
America,"  was  sold  in  1820  to  Colonel  George  Gibbs,  in  whose  day  it  is 
said  also  to  have  had  a  brilliant  record.  Subsequently  it  became  a  Roman 
Catholic  religious  house,  but  of  late  years  has  been  generally  unoccupied. 


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although  with  its  extensive  grounds  and  garden-plot  apparently  in  good 
condition. 

The  record  of  the  old  Sunswick  family  cannot  here  be  given.  There 
were  seven  sons,  who  all  lived  to  do  honor  to  their  father's  name  and  a 
mother's  culture,  for  "  she  it  is  who,  in  her  ofBce,  stamps  the  coin  of  char- 
acter." For  particular  biographical  sketches  of  several  of  them — tributes 
of  pathetic  and  glowing  pulpit  eloquence — we  beg  leave  to  refer  to  a  "Me- 
morial Sermon,"  delivered  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Weston,  at  St.  John's  Chapel, 
February  21,  1875.  These  were  Major  Joseph  Delafield,  U.  S.  A.,  Major- 
General  Richard  Delafield,  U.  S.  A.,  and  Dr.  Edward  Delafield,  the  cele- 
brated old  New  York  physician.  It  will  be  remembered  by  many  that  two 
of  these  eminent  men,  together  with  their  brother,  Mr.  Henry  Delafield,  a 
much  res|iected  merchant,  died,  at  an  advanced  age,  nearly  simultaneously, 
viz.,  on  February  12,  13,  and  14,  1875,  and  were  buried,  at  one  funeral 
service,  in  Trinity  Church  graveyard.  It  was  widely  noticed  at  the  time 
as  a  very  remarkable  and  touching  event  in  family  history. 

The  father  of  this  distinguished  family  attended  Trinity  Church,  where 
he  had  a  large  square  pew.  Most,  if  not  all,  of  his  children  were  baptized 
by  the  clergy  of  that  church,  the  ceremony  being  performed,  probably  with- 
out an  exception,  in  his  own  house,  and  it  is  believed  that  sooner  or  later 
all  were  numbered  among  its  communicants. 

.  We  cannot  close  this  article  without  acknowledging  our  obligation  for 
its  materials  to  a  friend  in  this  city  having  free  access  to  them,  as  also  to 
a  charming  volume  entitled  "  Biographies  of  Francis  Lewis  and  Morgan 
Lewis,"  by  their  granddaughter,  Julia  Delafield.  This  beautiful  work  gives 
sketches  of  several  ancient  New  York  families,  and  is  enriched  with  remi- 
niscences of  great  value  relative  to  prominent  persons  connected  with  the 
excellent  authoress — recently  deceased — by  consanguinity,  ancestry,  or  in 
social  life.  Both  as  a  family  history  and  a  literary  legacy  to  her  children 
and  kindred,  for  whom  it  was  principally  designed,  this  memorial  book 
must  ever  remain  a  warmly  cherished  souvenir  among  them. 

The  rapidly  disintegrating  processes  of  "  time  and  chance  "  impress  a 
certain  value  on  the  most  imperfect  endeavors  to  preserve  the  memories 
and  traditions  of  the  past,  and  therefore  in  committing  the  present  sketch 
to  the  columns  of  the  New  York  Genealogical  and  Biographical 
Record  we  are  content  to  say,  in  the  well-known  words  of  St.  Austin  : 
Quibiis  parum,  aut  quibus  nimium  est,  mihi  ignoscant. 

New  York,  May  i,  1885. 


THE  DE  WITT  FAMILY,  OF  ULSTER  COUNTY,  NEW  YORK. 


By  Thomas  G.  Evans. 


I.  The  first  mention  in  this  country,  of  Tjerck  Claessen  De  Witt,  the 
ancestor  of  the  De  Witt  family,*  is  found  in  the  "  Trouw  Boeck  "  or  Regis- 
ter of  Marriages  of  the  Reformed  (Collegiate)  Dutch  Church,  of  New  York 
City,  where  it  is  recorded  that  on   the   24th  day  of  April,  1656,  "Tjerck 

*  Tjerck  Claessen  De  Witt  was  the  son,  as  the  name  would  indicate,  of  Clacs,  or  Nicholas  De  Witt,  and, 
judging  from  the  custom  prevalent  at  that  time  of  naming  children  after  grandparents,  it  is  probable  that 
his  mother's  first  name  was  Taatje,  for  his  eldest  daughter  bears  that  name,  as  does  also  a  daughter  of 
Emmerentie  HofTman,  his  sister,  and  furthermore  he  had  a  sister  named  Taatje,  living  in  Holland. 


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2C2  The  De  Witt  Fatnily,  of  Ulster  Counry,  New  York.         [Oct., 

Claessen  De  Witt  van  Grootholdt  en  Zunderlandt,"  married  "Barbara 
Andriessen  van  Amsterdam."  Zunderlandt  has  not  been  definitely  located, 
but  it  is  probably  Saterland,  a  district  of  Westphalia,  on  the  southern  bor- 
der of  East  Friesland. 

Whether  or  not  any  of  his  family  emigrated  to  America  with  him  has 
not  been  ascertained,  but  it  is  probable  that  they  did,  for  in  1662  his  sister 
Emmerentie  De  Witt  married  Martinus  Hoffman,  at  New  Amsterdam,  and 
in  1699  his  brother  Jan  Claessen  De  Witt  died  unmarried  at  Kingston. 

For  a  short  time  after  his  marriage  he  lived  in  New  York  (his  first 
child,  Andries,  was  born  there),  but  in  the  spring  of  1657  he  removed  to 
Albany,  where  he  had  purchased  a  house  and  lot. 

In  September,  1660,  he  exchanged  his  Albany  property  with  Madame 
de  Hutter,  for  land  in  Wiltwyck  (now  Kingston),  "possession  to  be  given 
May  I,  1661."  He  probably  took  possession  at  that  time,  as  in  Septem- 
ber, 1661,  he  appears  as  plaintiff  in  an  action  at  law  before  the  Schepens 
Court  of  Wiltwyck,  and  on  October  nth  the  same  court  ordered  the 
Sheriff  (Roeleff  Swartwout)  to  pay  him  three  and  a  half  schepels  of  wheat 
in  eight  days  and  seven  more  in  one  month. 

From  this  time  until  his  death,  he  resided  in  Kingston  and  Hurley,  and 
some  of  the  land  which  he  purchased  is  still  in  the  hands  of  his  descendants. 

That  he  was  a  man  of  considerable  means  is  shown  by  the  fact  that  in 
1661  he  was  taxed  125  guilders  (about  $50)  to  pay  for  building  a  church 
in  Esopus. 

In  1662  he  owned  No.  28  of  the  "new  lots." 

June  7,  1663,  when  Kingston  and  Hurley  were  almost  entirely  de- 
stroyed by  the  Indians,  his  eldest  daughter,  Taatje,  was  taken  prisoner,  but 
was  soon  rescued.     She  afterward  married  Captain  Matthys  Matthyssen. 

"During  the  winter  of  1664  there  was  much  sickness  in  Esopus 
[Kingston].  Fever  took  hold  of  the  peoj^Je  and  prostrated  half  the  place. 
But  this  did  not  prevent  men  from  gathering  their  money.  Roeloff  Swart- 
wout sold  a  horse  to  Tjerck  Claessen  De  Witt,  which  was  taken  to  the  lat- 
ter's  barn,  but  the  ex-sheriff,  becoming  dissatisfied,  took  it  away  secretly. 
He  was  sued  for  the  property."  [From  unpublished  "  History  of  Ulster 
County."] 

June  25,  1672,  Governor  I^ovelace  deeded  him  "a  parcel  of  bush -land, 
together  with  a  house,  lot,  orchard,  and  calves'  pasture,  lying  near  Kings- 
ton, in  Esopus." 

Octobers,  1677,  Governor  Andros  deeded  him  a  piece  of  woodland, 
containing  about  fifty  acres,  at  Kingston  in  Esopus,  "to  y"  west  of  y*"  towne." 

February  1 1,  1679,  he  was  one  of  the  signers  of  a  renewal  of  the  Nichols 
treaty  with  the  Esopus  Indians. 

In  1684  he  signed  "the  humble  petition  of  the  inhabitants  of  Esopus 
in  the  County  of  Ulster,"  praying  that  there  might  be  "  liberty  by  char- 
ter to  this  county  to  choose  our  owne  officers  to  every  towne  court  by 
the  major  vote  of  the  freeholders."  This  petition  was  addressed  to  Col. 
Thomas  Dongan,  Governor-General.  It  greatly  offended  the  authorities, 
and  the  signers  were  arrested  and  fined.  Thus  early  in  the  history  of  the 
country  arose  the  questions  of  local  self-government  and  the  right  of  suf- 
frage.    They  were  easily  answered  then. 

February  13,  1685,  one  hundred  and  eighty-nine  acres  of  land  were 
conveyed  to  De  Witt  by  the  Trustees  of  Kingston. 

June  6,  1685,  he  claimed  two  hundred  and  ninety  acres  of  land  lying 


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upon  the  north  side  of  Rondout  Kill,  and  known  by  the  name  of  "  Mom- 
boccus  "  (in  the  town  of  Rochester)  in  Ulster  County.  This  was  laid  out 
for  him  by  Phillip  Welles,  surveyor,  and  was  granted  to  him  by  patent, 
May  14,  1694. 

March  4,  1689,  he  was  chosen  one  of  the  magistrates  of  Ulster  County, 
having  previously  held  other  offices. 

Tjerck  Claessen  De  Witt  died  at  Kingston,  February  17,  1700.  By  his 
will,  which  bears  date  the  4th  day  of  March,  1698,  and  which  is  written  in 
the  Dutch  language,  he  leaves  his  property  to  his  wife  for  life  ;  at  her  death 
one-half  to  go  to  his  oldest  son,  Andries,  and  one-half  to  his  youngest  son 
Tjerck,  in  trust,  "provided  that  the  same  shall  be  appraised  by  impartial 
persons  on  oath,"  and  divided  into  twelve  equal  shares,  one  share  to  be 
given  to  each  of  his  children,  their  heirs  or  assigns.  In  addition  to  the 
equal  share  he  gave  to  Andries  some  lands  at  Koksinck  and  Kleine  Esopus, 
to  Jan  and  Jacob  each  five  hundred  bushels  of  wheat,  and  to  Lucas,  the  one- 
half  of  a  sloop  which  he  had  built  the  year  previous.  The  legacy  to  his 
daughter  Rachel  is  subject  to  the  condition  "  that  my  said  daughter's  share 
shall  be  decreased  one  hundred  pounds  for  the  benefit  of  my  heirs,  which 
is  what  my  daughter's  husband,  Cornelius  Bogardus,  owes  me  for  the  one- 
eighth  of  a  brigantine,  desiring,  however,  that  the  child  of  the  said  Bo- 
gardus, named  Barbara,  shall  receive,  out  of  the  aforesaid  hundred  pounds, 
fifty  pieces  of  eight."  The  legacy  to  his  daughter  Jannetje,  the  wife  of  Cor- 
nelius Swits,  is  "  with  these  conditions,  that  if  my  aforesaid  daughter  shall 
die  without  leaving  any  children,  then  all  the  said  part  shall  be  the  prop- 
erty of  my  heirs,  to  be  equally  divided  between  them." 

His  wife  Barbara  is  appointed  executrix,  and  the  witnesses  are  Jacob 
Rutsen,  Abraham  La  Meter,  and  William  De  Meyer.  The  will  is  recorded 
in  the  Ulster  County  Clerk's  Office  at  Kingston,  in  Book  AA  of  Deeds,  p. 
252,  and  in  the  New  York  Surrogate's  Office,  Lib.  7  of  Wills,  p.  601.  The 
translation  from  which  the  above  is  taken  was  kindly  furnished  by  George 
G.  De  Witt,  Esq.,  of  New  York  City. 

Barbara  Andriessen  De  Witt  died  on  July  6,  17 14,  and  after  her  death 
the  property  was  appraised  according  to  the  provisions  of  the  will,  as  ap- 
pears by  the  following  certificate  which  is  recorded  in  the  Ulster  County 
Clerk's  Office,  Book  BB  of  Deeds,  p.  513  : 

"Whereas  by  the  Last  will  and  Testament  of  Tyerck  Clasen  D'Widt,  he 
Left  his  Estate  that  it  should  be  vallued  &  prysed  by  Indiff"erent  and  Im- 
partiall  men  uppon  there  oath,  and  aplication  being  made  unto  the  Court 
for  the  Ellecting  of  the  psons,  &  accordingly  have  made  choyce  of  Capt. 
Derick  Schepmoes,  M'.  Adrian  Geritsen,  Major  Johanis  Hardenberg,  Mr. 
James  Whitaker  &  Maj"^.  Jacobus  Elmendorf  to  valine  &  prize  the  said  Es- 
tate which  they  the  said  psons  doe  prize  accordingly  upon  oath,  being 
sworne  upon  the  holy  Evangelists  by  Coll.  Henry  Beekman,  the  said  per- 
sons prize  the  said  Estate  to  be  worth  the  som  of  fourteen  hundred  &  sev- 
enty-five pounds,  Curant  monny  of  New  Yorke. 

"  In  Testimony  whereof  wee  have  hereunto  Sett  our  hands  this  25""  day 
of  Aprill  in  the  yeare  1716. 

"  DiRCK.  Schepmoes, 
"  Arien  Gerritsen, 
"J.   Hardenbergh, 
"  James  Whittaker, 
"  Jacobus  Elmendorf." 


2  54  The  De  Witt  Family,  of  Ulster  County,  New  Yorli.         [Oct., 

Children  of  Tjerck  Claessen  De   Witt  and  Barbara  Atidriessen. 

2.  i.  Andries,"  was  born  in  New  York  City  in  the  early  part  of  1657. 
On  March  7,  1682,  he  married  Jannetje  Egbertsen  (bapt.  New  York,  Jan, 
II,  1664,  d.  Nov.  23,  1733),  daughter  of  Egbert  Meindertse  and  Jaepe  Jans. 
For  some  years  he  lived  at  Marbletown,  Ulster  County,  on  a  farm  given 
him  by  his  father,  but  removed  to  Kingston  previous  to  1 708.  On  July 
22,  1710,  "  Captain  Andries  De  Witt  departed  this  life  in  a  sorrowful  way  ; 
through  the  breaking  of  two  sleepers  [beams]  he  was  pressed  down  and 
very  much  bruised  ;  he  spoke  a  few  words  and  died."  He  was  buried  in 
the  churchyard  at  Kingston.      Family  2. 

3.  ii.  Taatje,^  born  at  Albany  about  1659;  ^^^^  previous  to  1724. 
She  was  carried  off  by  the  Indians  at  the  burning  of  Kingston  in  1663,  but 
was  rescued.  In  1677  she  m.  Matthys  Matthyssen  [Van  Keuren],  son  of 
Matthys  Jansen  [Van  Keuren]  and  Margaret  Hendrickse,  who,  in  1685, 
was  commissioned  as  captain  in  the  army  and  later  served  against  the 
French  on  the  northern  frontier.  (After  the  death  of  her  husband,  Mar- 
garet Hendrickse,  Matthys  Matthyssen's  mother,  married  Thomas  Cham- 
bers, Lord  of  the  Manor  of  Fox  Hall,  in  Ulster  County.)     Family  3. 

4.  iii.  Jannetje,^' bapt.  Feb.  12,  1662  ;*m.  Cornelius  Swits  (b.  1651, 
d.  1730),  son  of  Cornelis  Claessen  Swits  and  Ariantje  Trommels.  Corne- 
lius Swits  lived  at  Rochester,  Ulster  County,  on  a  sixty-acre  farm  purchased 
by  him  from  his  wife's  father.  Jannetje  Swits  died  in  1744,  having  had  no 
issue. 

5.  iv.  Klaes,""  bapt.  Feb.  17,  1664  ;  d.  previous  to  1698. 

6.  V.  Jan,^  bapt.  Feb.  14,  1666;  m.  Wyntje  Kiersted,  daughter  of  Dr. 
Roeloff  Kiersted  and  Ikee  (or  Aaghe)  Roosa.  (Dr.  Roelefif  Kiersted  was 
the  son  of  Hans  Kiersted  and  Sarah  Roeloffse,  daughter  of  the  famous  An- 
neke  Jans  by  her  first  husband,  and  Ikee  Roosa  was  the  daughter  of  Albert 
Heymanse  Roosa,  one  of  the  first  schepens  or  magistrates  of  Kingston). 
Jan  De  Witt  died  previous  to  April  12,  17 15,  as  at  that  time  his  will,  which 
bears  date  Oct.  29,  1700,  and  in  which  he  is  described  as  "of  Mombackis 
in  Ulster  County,"  was  proved  before  the  Surrogate  at  Kingston.  Fam- 
ily 4. 

7.  vi.  Geertruy,^  bapt.  Oct.  15,  1668;  m.,  March  24,  1688,  Hendrick 
Hendricksen  Schoonmaker  (bapt.  May  17,  1665),  son  of  Hendrick  Jochem- 
sen  Schoonmaker  and  Elsie  Janse.  He  died  previous  to  1718.  They  lived 
in  Rochester,  Ulster  County,  his  brother,  Jochem  Schoonmaker,  having 
been  one  of  the  original  settlers  of  that  place.     Family  5. 

8.  vii.  Jacob/  m.  Grietje  Vernooy,  daughter  of  Cornelis  C.  Vernoy  and 
Annatje  Cornelissen.  Lived  in  Rochester,  Ulster  County,  on  land  which 
he  and  his  brother  Jan  purchased  from  their  father  Dec.  24,  1695,  for  five 
hundred  schepels  of  wheat.  This  was  probably  a  portion  of  the  land  be- 
fore referred  to  as  granted  to  Tjerck  Claessen  by  patent  May  14,  1694. 
In  1 705  Jacob  was  one  of  the  Trustees  of  Rochester,  and  served  a  number 
of  years.     He  was  still  living  in  1753.     Family  6. 

9.  viii.  Rachel,^  m.  Cornelius  Bogardus  (d.  Oct.  13,  1707),  son  of  Cor- 
nelius Bogardus  and  Helena  Teller.  Cornelius  Bogardus,  Sr.  (b.,  Sept.  9, 
1640,  d.  1666),  was  the  son  of  Anneke  Jans  by  her  second  husband,  Rev. 
Everardus  Bogardus.     Helena  Teller  (b.  1645)  was  the  eldest  daughter  of 

*  Unless  otherwise  specified  the  baptisms  are  taken  from  the  records  of  the  Dutch  Church  at  Kingston, 

N.  Y. 


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William  Teller,  who  settled  in  Albany  in  1639,  moved  to  New  York  in  1692, 
and  died  there  in  1701.  After  the  death  of  Cornelius  Bogardus,  Sr.,  his 
widow  married  Francois  Rombouts,  a  noted  French  merchant  of  New  York 
City,  Cornelius  Bogardus,  Jr.,  taught  school  in  Albany  in  1700,  but  soon 
after  went  back  to  Kingston.  His  wife,  Rachel,  was  living  in  1738.  Fam- 
ily 7. 

10.  ix.  Lucas,-  m.,  Dec.  22,  1695,  Annatje  Delva,  daughter  of  An- 
thony Delva  and  Jannatje  Hillebrants.  She  was  a  Roman  Catholic.  Lu- 
cas was  commander,  and  joint-owner  with  his  father,  of  a  sloop  called  the 
St.  Barbara,  "  of  about  fifty  Dutch  feet  by  the  keele,"  which  in  1698  they 
sold  to  Capt.  Daniel  Hobart,  of  the  Island  of  Barbadoes,  for  ^200.  He 
died  in  1703.  On  March  31,  1706,  his  widow  married  Gerrit  Van  Ben- 
schoten,  and  removed  to  the  vicinity  of  what  is  now  Catskill,  Greene 
County,  N.  Y.  Becoming  again  a  widow,  she  married,  Oct.  26,  1721, 
Hendrick  Rosekrans,  Avhose  first  wife  was  Antje  Vredeiiberg.      Family  8. 

11.  X.  Peek,-  m.  (i),  Jan.  2,  1698,  Marytje  Janse  Vanderberg,  of  Al- 
bany, and  (2),  Dec.  21,  1723,  Maria  Tennis  (b.  in  Germany),  widow  of 
Jacob  De  Mott.  At  the  time  of  his  first  marriage  he  was  living  in  New 
York  City.  Subsequently  he  went  to  Dutchess  County,  where  he  settled 
on  land  jjurchased  by  his  father  from  Col.  Petrus  Schuyler,  of  Albany, 
Sept.  6,  1698.  This  land  was  conveyed  to  him  by  his  father  by  deed,  dated 
Feb.  7,  1700,  and  in  17 15  he  exchanged  it,  with  Col.  Henry  Beekman,  for 
land  in  Ulster  County,  whither  he  subsequently  removed.     Family  9. 

12.  xi.  TjERCK.''  Mentioned  in  his  father's  will  as  the  youngest  son. 
No  other  record. 

13.  xii.  Marritje,^  m.  (i),  Nov.  3,  1700,  Hendrick  Hendricksen 
[Kortreght],  son  of  Hendrick  Jansen  [Kortreght]  and  Catharine  Hansen 
Webber,  and,  having  been  divorced  from  him,  she  married  (2)  Sept.  6, 
1702,  Jan  Macklin.      Family  10. 

14.  xiii.  Aagje,^  bapt.  Jan.  14,  1684;  m.,  Aug.  23,  1712,  Jan  Pawling 
(bapt.  Oct.  2,  i68r),  son  of  Henry  Pawling  and  Neeltje  Roosa  (dau,  of 
Albert  Heymanse  Roosa).  Removed  to  Philadelphia  County,  Pa.  Fam- 
ily II. 

Family  2. 
Children  of  A?idries''  De  Witt  (2)  and  Jamietje  Egbertsen. 

15.  i.  TjERCK,3  bapt.  Jan.  12,  1683;  m.,  Jan.  18,  1708,  Anne  Pawling 
(bapt.  June  19,  1687),  daughter  of  Henry  Pawling  and  Neeltje  Roosa,  by 
whom  he  had  six  children.  One  of  these,  Petrus,  was  the  grandfather  of 
Peter  De  Witt,  an  eminent  New  York  lawyer  in  the  early  part  of  this  cen- 
tury. For  his  second  wife  Tjerck  m.  (Oct.  17,  1739)  Deborah  (baj)!.  Sept. 
14,  1684),  daughter  of  Egbert  Hendricksen  Schoonmaker  and  Annatje 
Berry,  and  widow,  successively,  of  Jacob  Vernooy  and  Hendrick  Vroom. 
Tjerck  died  at  Kingston,  Aug.  30,  1762,  leaving  no  issue  by  his  second 
wife.     Family, /2. 

16.  ii.  Jacob,3  bapt.  Sept.  28,  1684,  d.  in  infancy. 

17.  iii.  Barbara,^  bapt.  Aug.  22,  1686,  d.  in  infancy. 

18.  iv.  Klaes,3  bapt.  Ai>ril  30,  1O88,  d.  in  infancy. 

19.  vi.  Barbara,^  b.  Oct.  30,  1689;  m.,  March  25,  1715,  Johannes 
Van  Leuven  ;  d.  Nov.  i,  17 15. 

20.  vii.  Jacob,3  b.   Dec.   30,    1691  ;    m..  May   9,    1731,   Heyltje   Van 


256  The  De  Witt  Fattiily,  of  Ulster  Coimty,  New  York.  [Oct., 

Kampen  (bapt.  Oct,  6,  1700),  daughter  of  Jan  Van  Kampen   and  Tietje 
Janse  Decker.     Family  13. 

21.  viii.  Maria,3  b.  Jan  21,  1693;  m.,  Oct.  3c,  1713,  Jan  Roosa,  Jr. 
(bapt.  Nov.  6,  1692),  son  of  Jan  Roosa  and  Hillegond  Van  Buren.  Fam- 
ily 14. 

22.  ix.  Helena,3  b.  Dec.  7,  1695  ;  m.,  June  6,  1719,  Jacob  Swits  (bapt. 
at  Albany,  Oct.  29,  1693),  son  of  Isaac  Swits  and  Susanna  Groot,  and 
nephew  of  Cornelis  Swits,  who  m.  Jannetje  De  Witt  (4).  Among  her  chil- 
dren was  Col.  Abraham  Swits,  of  Schenectady,  who  was  prominent  in  the 
Revolution, 

23.  X,  Andries,3  b.  April  i,  1697;  d.  July  2,  1701. 

24.  xi.  Egbert,3  b.  March  18,  1699  ;  m,,  Nov.  4,  1726,  Mary  Notting- 
ham (b.  May  19,  1704),  daughter  of  William  Nottingham  and  Margaret 
Rutsen.  He  settled  at  Napanoch,  in  the  town  of  Warwarsing,  Ulster 
County,  and  had  a  family  of  ten  children — nine  sons  and  one  daughter. 
The  daughter,  Mary,  married  Gen.  James  Clinton,  and  became  the  mother 
of  Gov.  De  VVitt  Clinton.     Family  15. 

25.  xii.  JoHANNis,3  b.  March  26,  1701  ;  m.,  June  27,  1724,  Mary  Brod- 
head  (bapt.  Aug.  6,  1699),  daughter  of  Charles  Brodhead  and  Maria  Ten- 
broeck.  His  eldest  son,  Col.  Charles  De  Witt,  who  married  Blandina 
Dubois,  was  very  prominent  in  Colonial  affairs  during  the  Revolution. 
Family  16. 

26.  xiii..  Andries,3  bapt.  Feb.  20,  1703;  m.,  Dec.  3,  1731,  Bredjen 
Nottingham  (bapt.  Dec.  23,  1711),  a  sister  of  his  brother  Egbert's  wife. 
He  died  at  Rochester,  Ulster  County,  in  1764,  leaving  a  large  family  of 
children.     Family  17. 

Family  3. 

Childreft  of  Taatfe  ^  De  Witt  (3)  and  Matthys  Mat  thy  sen  Van  Keuren. 

27.  i.  Sara,3  bapt.  April  16,  1678  ;  m.  Matthew  Du  Bois. 

28.  ii.   Lea,3  bapt.  May  11,  1679. 

29.  iii.  Matthv.s,3  bapt.  April  24,  1681  ;  m.  Tryntje  Sleght. 

30.  iv.  Tjerck,3  bapt.  Dec,  24,  1682  ;  m,  Marytje  Ten  Eyck. 

31.  V.  Thomas,^  bapt.  Nov.  i,  1684  ;  d.  young. 

32.  vi.  Barbara,^  bapt.  Oct.  11,  1685;  m.  (i)  Cornelius  Wynkoop  ; 
(2)  Peter  Tappen. 

T^^i-  vii.  Klaes,3  bapt.  Dec.  4,  1687. 

34.  viii.  Thomas, 3  bapt.  Oct.  13,  1689  ;  ni.  Mary  Pawling. 

35.  ix.  Hasuel,3  bapt.  Jan.  28,  1692  ;  m,  Mary  Riker. 

36,  X.  Cornelis, 3  bapt.  June  3,  1694;  m.  (i)  Kesiah  Hoogteling ;  (2) 
Cornelia  (Newkirk)  Hoff. 

37,  xi.  Benjamin,^  bapt.  Oct.  18,  1696, 

Family  4, 
Children  of  Jan "  De  Witt  (6)  and  Wyntje  Kiersted. 

38.  i.  Barbara,^  bapt.  April  17,  1692  ;  m.  Jan  Gerritse  Dekker  (bapt. 
July  28,  1688),  son  of  Gerrit  Janse  Dekker  and  Margaret  Dekker.  Fam- 
ily 18, 

39,  ii.  Ikee,3  bapt.  June  3,  1694;  probably  m.,  Dec.  13,  1735,  Benja- 
min De  Pue  (bapt.  Oct.  13,  1695),  son  of  Moses  De  Pue  and  Marritje 
Wynkoop. 


1 886.]         The  De  Witt  Family,  of  Ulster  County,  New  York.  2^'J 

40.  iii.  Blandina,3  bapt.  April  12,  1696;  m.,  Oct.  24,  1719,  Jurian 
Westphael  (bapt.  Sept.  27,  1698),  son  of  Simon  Westphael  and  Neeltje 
Quackenbos.     Family  19. 

41.  iv.  Rachel,3  bapt.  Aug.  23,  1698;  m.,  April  15,  1723,  Isaac  Van 
Aken.     P'amily  20. 

41.  V.  Jannatje,3  bapt.  July  13,  1701  ;  m.  Abraham  Van  Aken.  Fam- 
ily 21. 

Family  5. 
Children  of  Geertruy'  De  Witt  {7)  and  Hendrick  H.  Schoonmaker. 

42.  i.  Elsie, 3  bapt.  April  14,  1689;  died  young. 

43.  ii.  Heskia,3  bapt.  April  14,  1689;  a  twin  of  Elsie. 

44.  iii.  Barbara, 3  bapt.  May  26,  1691  ;  m.,  Oct.  30,  1719,  Wilhelmus 
Ploeg. 

45.  iv.  Elsie,3  bapt.  April  17,  1692  ;  m.,  June  13,  1713,  Nicholas  De 
Meyer  (bapt.  Oct.  14,  1683),  son  of  William  De  Meyer  and  Catharine 
Bayard. 

46.  V.  Hendrick,3  bapt.  June  3,  1694;  m.,  Oct.  16,  1724,  Tryntje 
Osterhoudt. 

47.  vi.  Jannetje,3  bapt.  Aug.  18,  1695  ;  d.  young. 

•    48.  vii.  JoHANNES,3  bapt.  July  4,  1697;  m.,  May  15,  1729,   Ariaantje 
Hoogteling. 

49.  viii.  TjERCK,3  bapt.  Jan.  22,  1699;  m.,  Nov.  21,  1729,  Theodosia 
Whittaker  (bapt.  May  7,  1710;  d.  March  6,  1791),  daughter  of  Edward 
Whittaker  and  Hillitje  Burhans. 

50.  ix.  Jacob,3  bapt.  Nov.  3,  1700. 

51.  X.  Jannetje,3  bapt.  Oct.  4,  1702  ;  m.,  Sept.  30,  1720,  Hendrick 
Oosterhoudt. 

52.  xi.  Sarah, 3  bapt.  March  2,  1707  ;  d.  young. 

53.  xii.  Catrina,3  bapt.  Feb.  11,  1709;  m.,  Jan.  14,  1731,  Abraham 
Person. 

54.  xiii.  Sarah,3  bapt.  Oct.  12,  1710;  m.,  Aug.  19,  1726,  Cornelis 
Macklin. 

The  Maria  Schoonmaker,  who  m.  Aug.  28,  1731,  Martin  Post,  was 
probably  a  daughter  of  Hendrick  and  Geertruy. 

Family  6. 
Children  of  Jacob  ^  De  Witt  (8)  and  Grietje  Vernooy. 

55.  i.  Anna,3  bapt.  March  15,  1696;  d.  1715;  m.,  March  i,  1713, 
Frederick  Schoonmaker  (bapt.  Jan.  28,  1692),  son  of  Jochem  H.  Schoon- 
maker and  Anna  Hussey.  Frederick  Schoonmaker,  m.,  Feb.  6,  171 7, 
Eva  Swartwout  (bapt.  Nov.  16,  1694),  daughter  of  Thomas  Swartwout 
and  Elizabeth  Gardiner.     Family  22. 

56.  ii.  TjERCK,3  bapt.  July  3,  1698;  d.  1764;  m.,  Aug.  8,  1719,  Ari- 
aantje Dekker  (bapt.  May  15,  1698),  daughter  of  Gerrit  Dekker  and  Mar- 
garet Dekker.    Family  23. 

57.  iii.  Cornelis,3  bapt.  April  6,  1701 ;  m.,  Oct.  3,  1728,  Sara  Hoorn- 
beck  (bapt.  Oct.  12,  1710),  daughter  of  Lodowyck  Hoornbeck  and  Marytje 
Vernooy.     Family  24. 

58.  iv.  Jannetje,3  bapt.  Feb.  13,  1704;  m.,  Aug.  22,  1731,  Gerardus 
van  Nieuwegen.     Removed  to  the  Minnisink  region.     Family  2^. 


258  The  De  Witt  Family,  of  Ulster  Couftty,  New  York.         [Oct., 

59.  V.  Jacob, 3  bapt.  Sept.  28,  1707  ;  d.  unmarried  in  1778. 

60.  vi.  Taatje,3  bapt.  Oct.  12,  17 10;  m.,  March  17,  1730,  Peter 
Guimard  (or  Gumaer),  son  of  Pierre  Guimard  and  Hester  Hasbrouck.  He 
d.  in  1779.  Pierre  Guimard  emigrated  from  France,  and  settled  in  the 
Mmnesink  region,  now  the  town  of  Ueerpark,  Orange  County,  N.  Y., 
where  Peter,  his  only  son,  was  born  about  1710.     Family  26. 

61.  vii.   Elizabeth,^  bapt.  Feb.  21,  17 14. 

62.  viii.  Jan, 3  bapt.  June  15,  1718;  m.,  Dec.  19,  1751,  Anne  Prescott. 
One  of  his  descendants  is  the  Hon.  John  E.  De  Witt,  of  Portland,  Me. 

Family  27. 

Family  7. 
Children  of  Rachel ""  De  Witt  (9)  and  Cornelius  Bogardtis. 

63.  i.  Helena,^  bapt.  April  17,  1692. 

64.  ii.  Janneke,3  bapt.  May  13,  1694,  at  New  York  City. 

65.  iii.  Barbara,^  bapt.  Dec.  16,  1695, 

66.  iv.  Cornelius,^  bapt.  Jan.  8,  1699. 

67.  V.  Rachel,3  bapt.  April  27,  1701,  at  Albany. 

68.  vi.   Catharina,3  bapt.  Aug.  29,  1703. 

69.  vii.  Margarita,^  bapt.  Sept.  22,  1705. 

70.  viii.  Henricus,3  bapt.  Sept.  28,  1707. 

Family  8. 
Children  of  Lucas'  De  JVitt  (10)  and  Annafje  Delva. 

71.  i.  Jannetje,3  bapt.  March  7,  1696;  m.,  July  19,  1717,  Cornelis 
Langendyk  (bapt.,  N.  Y.,  July  10,  1689),  son  of  Pieter  Janse  Langendyk 
and  Geertje  Cornelis.      Family  28. 

72.  ii.  Barbara,^  bapt.  Nov.  12,  1698;  d.  young. 

73.  iii.  Jan,3  bapt.  Dec.  8,  1700;  m.,  Sept.  26,  1731,  Ariaantje  Oster- 
houdt  (bapt.  March  9,  171 2),  daughter  of  Gysbert  Osterhoudt  and  Maritje 
Bogard.     Family  29. 

74.  iv.  Lucas, 3  bapt.  Sept.  5,  1703;  ni.,  Jan.  17,  1729,  Catherine 
Roosa  (bapt.  F"eb.  16,  1709),  daughter  of  Evert  Roosa  and  Tietje  Van 
Etten.  Among  the  descendants  of  this  Lucas  is  the  Rev.  John  De  Witt, 
New  Brunswick,  N.  J.,  one  of  the  Committee  on  the  Revision  of  the 
Bible.      Family  30. 

Family  9. 
Children  of  Peek  ^  De  Witt  (11)  and  Marytje  Vanderberg. 

75.  i.  Maria,3  bapt.  New  York,  Nov.  13,  169S  ;  m.,  June  3,  1720, 
Hugo  Freer,  son  of  x\braham  Freer  and  Aagje  Titsoort.      Family  31. 

76.  ii.   TjERCK.,3  bapt.  Feb.  11,  1700,  d.  in  infancy. 

77.  iii.  TjERCK,3  bapt.  Sept.  12,  1703;  m.,  Aug.  7,  1737,  Marjory 
Sissem.     Family  32. 

78.  iv.  Jannktje,3  bapt.  March  24,  1706. 

79.  V.  Johannes,^  bapt.  Feb.  18,  1709. 

80.  vi.  Catrina,3  bapt.  June  17,  1711. 

Children  by  his  second  wife,  Maria  Teunis. 

81.  vii.  Christina,^  bapt.  May  23,  1725;  m.,  Nov.  26,  1748,  Arie  Van 
Etten,  son  of  Petrus  Van  Etten.     Family  t^t^. 


1 886.]  Brookhaven  (Z.  /.)  Epitaphs.  259 

82.  viii.  Anna  Maria,^  bapt.  (Athens  Ch.  Rec.)  April  30,  1730,  d. 
April  I,  1814;  ni.  (i),  Nov.  30,  1749,  Frederick  Winne  (bapt.  Sept.  22, 
1723),  son  of  Pieter  Winne  and  Antje  Merkal;  m.  (2),  May  13,  1758,  Jan 
L.  De  Witt  (202).     Family  34. 

{To  be  continued.) 


BROOKHAVEN  (L.  I.)  EPITAPHS. 


By  William  Kklby. 


THE    HAWKINS    BURYING-GROUND    AT    NASSAKEAG. 

In  Memory  of  Alexander  Hawkins,  who  died  May  2d.  A.D.  1787  aged 
74  years. 

In  Memory  of  Tabitha  wife  of  Alexander  Hawkins,  who  died  Sept.  14th 
1798  in  the  87th  year  of  her  age. 

In  Memory  of  Charity  wife  of  Jacob  Hawkins,  who  died  July  17,  1819. 
aged  66  years 

In  Memory  of  Alexander  Hawkins,  who  died  April  27  1810  M  69. 

In  Memory  of  Miriam  wife  of  Alexander  Hawkins,  who  died  March  12 
1838  aged  90  years  3  mos.  &  12  days. 

In  Memory  of  Merrit  Hawkins  who  departed  this  life  June  11.  1849 
aged  71  years  7  mos.  «S:  5  days. 

In  Memory  of  Anna  wife  of  Merrit  Hawkins  who  departed  this  life  Feb. 
22d.  1822  aged  39  years  11  mos.  &  2  days. 

In  Memory  of 

Zopher  Hawkins 

who  died  Oct  26,  1847 

in  the  91st  year  of  his  age 

He  served  his  country  faithfully  in  the 

Revolution,  and  was  a  captive  among 

the  Indians  3  years. 

He  lived  a  quiet  and  peaceful  life,  was  happy  and  resign'd  in  death. 

Ruth  daughter  of  Zophar  &  Julianer  Hawkins  departed  this  life  Sept. 
26.  1832  aged  24  years  4  mos.  &  6  days 

In  Memory  of  Julianer  wife  of  Zopher  Hawkins.  Died  Oct.  Sth  1842 
in  the  68th  year  of  her  age 

In  Memory  of  Mary  wife  of  Samuel  Hawkins,  who  died  March  29, 
1800  aged  78  years 

In  Memory  of  Samuel  Hawkins,  who  died  March  15,  1810  A\  89. 

in  Memory  of  Hannah  wife  of  Jacob  Hawkins  Jr.,  who  died  Dec.  i. 
1S05  in  the  23d  year  of  her  age 

In  Memory  of  Jacob  Hawkins  Jr.  who  died  May  29  1840  aged  56  years 
10  mos.  2  days. 

Mary  S.  wife  of  Jacob  Hawkins,  died  Dec.  31  1858  M.  74  years  2  mos. 

In  Memory  of  Alexander  Hawkins,  who  died  Feb  23d.  1855  Aged  78 
years 

In  Memory  of  Sarah  Hawkins,  wife  of  Alexander  Hawkins,  who  died 
Sept.  23d  1858  aged  76  years. 


26o  Brookhaven  (Z.  I.)  Epitaphs.  [Oct., 

Moses,  son  of  Alexander  &  Sarah  Hawkins,  died  March  ii.  1813  JE  3 
weeks 

Simeon  Hawkins,  died  July  3,  1824  J¥^.  80 

Elizabeth  wife  of  Simeon  Hawkins,  died  March  20  181 1  M.  64 

Tarpathy,  wife  of  Daniel  Smith,  died  March  13  1799  in  the  25th  year 
of  her  age 

Sarah,  wife  of  Daniel  Smith,  died  Dec.  23.  1830  in  the  60th  year  of  her 
age 

Daniel  Smith,  died  July  27  1853  M.  80  years  8  mos.  and  5  d's. 

Anum  Smith,  died  Dec  4  1855  in  the  82d  year  of  his  age. 

Nathan  Hawkins,  died  March  30,  1831.  in  the  40th  year  of  his  age 

James  Hawkins,  died  June  i,  1864  M.  87  years  4  mos. 

Mary,  wife  of  James  Hawkins,  died  Dec.  7  1833  aged  53  years  and 
2  days 

Joel  Hawkins,  died  Feb  22  1830  in  the  49th  year  of  his  age. 

In  Memory  of  Isaac  Hawkins,  who  departed  this  life  Feb  3.  1836  in 
the  77th  )'ear  of  his  age. 

William  S.  son  of  James  H  &  Hannah  Beasley,  died  Sept.  13.  185 1 
aged  II  months  &  26  days. 

Ebenezer  Smith,  son  of  Isaac  &  Rebecca  Hawkins,  born  March  23 
1838,  died  Sept  7  1879 

In  Memory  of  Isaac  Hawkins,  who  died  March  30  1854  aged  48  years 
and  19  days 

Amos  C.  Smith,  died  May  23  1865  M  56  years  3  mos.  &  23  days. 

Mary  R,  born  March  14  1866,  died  April  14.  1872  Amy  A.  born  Oct 
12  1869,  died  April  19.  1872  children  of  Ebenezer  S.  &  Elizabeth  A. 
Hawkins 

Sarah  Ann,  wife  of  Ebenezer  Hawkins,  and  daughter  of  Merritt  &  Ann 
Hawkins,  born  July  26  181 5,  died  Nov.  20  1879. 

Ebenezer,  son  of  Zophar  &  Ellen  Hawkins,  of  New  Village,  L.  I.  born 
Nov.  4  1815,  died  March  30  1880 

Mary,  wife  of  T.  B.  Crane,  born  Jan  9.  1806,  died  April  3  1878 

Elizabeth,  wife  of  Andrew  L.  Milles,  born  Jan  ie  1802  died  June  3. 
1876. 

Mary  Eliza,  daughter  of  Martin  &  Emily  Nivens,  born  May  7.  1857, 
died  Dec.  29,  1857. 

Alexander  Hawkins  IV.  died  May  9.  1863  aged  52  years 

Marv  A,  daughter  of  Alexander  &  Sarepta  A.  Hawkins  died  Sept  27 
1854  M.  3  mos  &  2  days. 

Alexander,  son  of  Alexander  &  Sarepta  A.  Hawkins,  died  Sept  21.  1854 
JEi.  I  year  7  mos. 

Emily  E,  daughter  of  Alexander  &  Sarepta  A.  Hawkins,  died  Oct.  5. 
1847  M.  5  mos. 

Sarah  E.  daughter  of  Alexander  &  Sarepta  A.  Hawkins,  died  April  23, 
1843  ^-  3  nios,  23  days. 

John  S.  son  of  Alexander  &  Sarepta  A.  Hawkins,  died  Sept,  6.  1841 
J¥a  6  years,  2  days. 

Anna  Josephine,  daughter  of  Robert  and  Laura  E,  Walmsley,  died  Jan. 
20,  185 1,  aged  I  year  3.  mos.  &  15  days. 

In  Memory  of  William  Coleman,  infant  son  of  Robert  and  Laura  E. 
Walmsley,  who  departed  this  life  July  29th  1844,  aged  3  mos  &  4  days. 


1 886.]  Early  Settlers  of  Ulster  County.  26 1 

EARLY   SETTLERS   OF   ULSTER   COUNTY. 


Abraham  and  Jean  Hasbrouck. 


By  Gerrit  H.  Van  Wagenen. 


Abraham  and  Jean  Hasbrouck,  or  Hasbroucque,  ancestors  of  the  Has- 
brouck family  in  this  country,  were  born  in  Calais,  France,  of  which  place 
their  father  was  a  native.  Driven  out  of  France  b)'  the  religious  troubles 
and  persecutions  which  beset  the  Huguenot  families  in  those  days,  their 
father,  with  his  two  sons,  Abraham  and  Jean,  and  a  daughter  who  was  mar- 
ried to  Pierre  Hayaar,  went  to  Mannheim,  in  the  Lower  Palatinate,  Ger- 
many, where  they  all  resided  for  several  years.  In  1673  Jean  Hasbrouck, 
with  his  wife  Anna  Duyon  [Deyo]  and  two  or  more  children,  came  to 
America,  and  probably  went  directly  to  Esopus,  where  he  settled.  Abra- 
ham, of  whom  we  have  fuller  record  from  manuscript  preserved  in  the 
family,  went  from  Mannheim  to  Holland,  and  from  thence,  in  company 
with  a  number  of  his  acquaintances,  sailed  for  America  in  April,  1675. 
He  landed  at  Boston,  proceeded  directly  to  New  York,  and  then  to  Esopus, 
which  he  reached  in  July  of  the  same  year,  and  where  he  found  his  brother 
Jean. 

On  November  17,  1675,  he  married,  at  Hurley,  Marie,  daughter  of 
Christian  Duyon  [Deyo],  whom  he  had  known  in  Germany,  and  who  had 
come  over  on  the  same  vessel  with  him.  She  was  probably  a  sister  of 
Jean's  wife.  In  1677  he,  with  his  brother  Jean  and  some  others,  obtained 
from  Governor  Andros  a  patent  for  a  large  tract  of  land  in  Ulster  County, 
south  of  Kingston,  where  they  settled  and  which  they  named  New  Paltz. 
"  And  the  said  Abraham  Hasbrouck  and  his  associates  assembled  together 
in  the  New  Paltz,  and  became  and  formed  themselves  into  a  congregation 
by  the  name  of  the  Walloon  Protestant  Church,  after  the  name  and  disci- 
pline of  the  church  of  Geneva,  according  to  the  tenets  of  John  Calvin,  and 
had  divine  service  in  the  French  language  for  about  one-half  a  century, 
and  then  the  French  language  being  much  lost,  then  the  descendants  of 
the  Waldenses  or  Walloorfs  have  divine  service  in  the  Dutch  language,  being 
the  vulgar  tongue  (using  and  holding  by  the  same  discipline  as  at  first). 
But  during  the  life  of  the  said  Abraham  Hasbrouck,  and  several  of  his 
associates,  divine  service  was  always  in  the  French  language  "  (Hasbrouck 
MSS.). 

Abraham  Hasbrouck  was  for  many  years  a  member  of  the  Provincial 
Assembly,  and  was  also  Major  of  the  Ulster  County  Regiment  of  Militia. 
He  died  of  apoplexy  on  Sunday,  March  17,  171 7.  His  wife  died  March 
27,  1 741,  aged  eighty-eight  years. 

Descendants  of  Abraham  Hasbrouck,  the  Emigrant. 
Children  of  Abraham  Hasbrouck  and  Maria  Deyo. 

1.  i.  Rachel,^'  bapt.  in  N,  Y.,  May  12,  1680;  sponsors,  Carel  de 
Nuson,  Abraham  Rutan,  Margriet  Dojou,  m.  at  Kingston,  Jan.  19,  1701, 
Louis  Dubois,     She  died  previous  to  171 7.     Family  2. 

2.  ii.  Anna,='  bapt.  at  Kingston,  Oct.  9,  1682  ;  sponsors,  Jean  Has- 
brouck and  Anna  Deyo  ;  d.  in  infancy. 

3.  iii.  Joseph,^' bapt.  at   New  Paltz,  Oct.   23,  1684,  d.  Jan.  28,  172I, 


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262  Early  Settlers  of  Ulster  County.  [Oct., 

aged  40 ;  ni.  at  Kingston,  Oct.  2  7,  1 706,  Elsie  Schoonmaker,  bapt.  at 
Kingston,  Dec,  13,  1685,  d.  July  27,  1764,  aged  78  years,  8  months,  and 
3  days,  daughter  of  Jochem  Schoonmaker  and  Petronella  Sleght.  Family  3. 

4.  iv.  Solomon,'' bapt.  at  New  Paltz,  Oct.  17,  1686;  sponsors,  Louis 
Bevier  and  La  Toynette  ;  d.  April  3,  1753,  m.  at  Kingston,  April  7,  1721, 
Sara,  dau.  of  Jacob  Aartsen  Van  Wagenen  and  Sara  Pels,  b.  Dec.  i,  1701, 
bapt.  at  Kingston,  Dec.  21,  1701  \yan  Wagerien  Genealogy,  p.  15]. 
Family  4, 

5.  V.  JoNAS,^  bapt.  at  New  Paltz,  Oct.  14,  1691 ;  sponsor,  Abraham, 
son  of  John  Hasbrouck  ;  d.  in  infancy. 

6.  vi.  Daniel,^  bapt.  at  Kingston,  June  3,  1694  ;  sponsors,  Andries  Le 
P'ever  and  Sarah  Rutgers;  d.  Jan.  25,  1759,  "^-  April  2,  1734,  Wyntje 
Deyo,  d.  Oct.  30,  1787,  aged  79  years,  11  months.     Family  5. 

7.  vii.  Benjamin,^  bapt.  May  31,  1696;  sponsors,  Abraham  Deyo  and 
Mary  Frere. 

(According  to  the  Hasbrouck  manuscripts  there  were  other  children  who 

died  in  infancy.) 

Family  2. 
Children  of  Rachel''  Hasbrouck  {No.  i)  and  Louis  Dubois. 

8.  i.  Maria,3  bapt.  at  Kingston,  Dec.  7,  1710;  sponsors,  Mary  and 
Isaac  Hasbrouck. 

9.  ii.  Nathaniel,^  bapt.  at  Kingston,  June  6,  1 703  ;  sponsors,  Jacob 
Dubois  and  Gerritje  CorneiUisen. 

10.  iii.  Mary,3  bapt.  at  Kingston,  March  24,  1706;  sponsors,  Isaac 
and  Mary  Hasbrouck. 

11.  iv.  Jonas, 3  bapt.  at  Kingston,  June  20,  1708  ;  sponsors,  Abraham 
Hasbrouck  and  Maria  Deyo. 

12.  V.  Jonathan, 3  bapt.  at  Kingston,  Dec.  21,  1710;  sponsors,  Jo- 
seph Hasbrouck,  Elsie  Schoonmaker,  Roeloff  Elting  and  Sara  Dubois. 

13.  vi.  CATRyNA,3  bapt.  at  Kingston,  Oct.  31,  1714;  sponsors,  Solo- 
mon Hasbrouck,  Catharine  Dubois. 

Family  3. 
Children  of  Joseph "  Hasbrouck  {No.  3)  and  Elsie  Schoonmaker. 

14.  i.  Abraham,^  b.  at  Guilford,  Ulster  County,  N.  Y.,  Aug.  21,  1707, 
bapt.  at  Kingston,  Oct.  19,  1707;  sponsors,  Louis  Dubois  and  Rachel 
Hasbrouck;  d.  Nov.  10,  1791  ;  m.  June  5,  1739,  Catharine  Bruyn,  b. 
June  24,  1720,  d.  Aug.  10,  1793,  daughter  of  Jacobus  Bruyn  and  Tryntje 
Schoonmaker.     Family  6. 

15.  ii.  Sara, 3  bapt.  at  Kingston,  Feb.  18,  1709;  sponsors,  Cornelis 
and  Sara  Schoonmaker;  d.  Jan.  24,  1780;  m.  at  Kingston,  Oct.  27,  1737, 
William  Osterhoudt.     Family  7. 

16.  iii.  Petronella,3  bapt.  at  Kingston,  Dec.  25,  1710  ;  sponsors, 
Jochem  Schoonmaker  and  Annatje  Hoffman ;  m.  at  New  Paltz,  July  24, 
1,735,  Simon  Lefever. 

17.  iv.  IsAAC,3  b.  March  21,  1712  ;  bapt.  at  Kingston,  May  11,  17 12  ; 
sponsors,  Solomon  Hasbrouck  and  Catharine  Dubois;  d.  April  6,  1778, 
and  buried  in  churchyard  at  Shawangunk ;  m.  July  14,  1766,  Annetje 
Low,  d.  Oct.  2,  1 784.     She  was  the  widow  of  John  Van  Gaasbeck. 


x886.J  Early  Settlers  of  Ulster  Cotmty.  263 

18.  V.  Maria,3  b.  Jan.  10,  1714,  bapt.  at  Kingston,  Feb.  7,  1714; 
sponsors,  Isaac  Lefever,  Sara  Rutsen ;  d.  Jan.  12,  1774;  m.  at  New  Paltz, 
Oct.  14,  1734,  John  Gasherie ;  m.  (2)  June  i,  1752,  Abraham  Harden- 
berg  ;  d.  Nov.  13,  1771,  aged  sixty  years,  ten  months.     Family  8. 

19.  vi.  Rachel,3  b.  Nov.  11,  1715;  bapt.  at  Kingston,  Jan.  8,  1716; 
sponsors,  Louis  Bevier  and  EHzabeth  Hasbrouck;  d.  April  19,  1756;  m. 
at  Kingston,  Sept.  3,  1747,  Jan  Elting,  widower  of  Rachel  Whitaker,  and 
son  of  VViliam  Elting  and  Jannetje  Lesier.  He  was  bapt,  at  Kingston, 
Feb.  II,  1709;  d.  March  7,  1762  (G.  &  B,  Rec,  vol  xvi.,  p.  31).  They 
had  a  child,  Elsie,  bapt.  at  Kingston,  June  24,  1748,  who  m.  Sylvester  Sal- 
isbury, bapt.  at  Kingston,  June  14,  1743  ;  d.  April  10,  1785. 

20.  vii.  Jacob, 3  bapt.  at  Kingston,  May  5,  1717  ;  d.  March  8,  1802; 
m.  at  Kingston,  Oct.  17,  1746,  Maria  Hoornbeclc,  b.  Aug.  24,  1718;  d. 
Aug.  I,  1789,  daughter  of  Cornelis  Hoornbeck  and  Annatje  Osterhoudt. 
Family  9. 

21.  viii.  Benjamin,^  bapt.  at  Kingston,  June  28,  1719;  sponsors,  Dan- 
iel Hasbrouck  and  Anneke  Schoonmaker ;  m.  Nov.  27,  1752,  Lydia 
Schoonmaker.     Family  10. 

22.  ix.  CoRNELis,3  bapt.  Sept.  25,  1720;  sponsors,  Benjamin  and 
Sara  Dubois. 

23.  X.  Jonathan,^  b.  April  12,  1722;  m.  May,  1751,  Tryntje,  daugh- 
ter of  Cornelius  Dubois.  Settled  in  Newburg,  Orange  County,  N.  Y.,  and 
died  there  July  31,  1780,  and  was  buried  on  his  own  land  between  his 
house  and  the  North  River.  His  homestead  is  the  Washington  Head- 
quarters, now  owned  by  the  State  of  New  York. 

His  will,  dated  Nov.  24,  1772,  mentions  his  wife  Tryntje,  and  his  chil- 
dren Cornelius,  Isaac,  Jonathan  (youngest  son),  Rachel,  and  Mary.  He 
devised  to  each  daughter  ;^5oo  when  his  youngest  son  comes  of  age,  the 
rest  of  the  property  to  be  divided  equally  among  his  three  sons  when  the 
youngest  comes  of  age.  The  executors  named  are  his  wife,  his  son  Cor- 
nelius, his  brother  Abraham,  and  Joseph  Gasherie.  Proved  Dec.  21, 
1782.  Joseph  Gasherie,  Surrogate.  Recorded  N.  Y.  Surrogate's  Office, 
Lib.  36  of  Wills,  p.  166. 

Family  4. 

Childreji  of  Solomon  ^  Hasbrouck  {JVo.  4)  atid  Sara  Van  Wageften. 

24.  i.  Abraham, 3  bapt.  at  Kingston,  March  11,  1722;  sponsors,  Dan- 
iel Hasbrouck  and  Maria  Dubois;  m.  at  Kingston,  Jan.  28,  1749,  Rachel 
Slecht.  , 

25.  ii.  Jacobus,^  bapt.  at  Kingston,  Jan.  3,  1725;  sponsors,  Aart  Van 
Wagenen  and  Marytje  Low;  d.  in  infancy. 

26.  iii.  Jacobus, 3  bapt.  at  Kingston,  Jan.  i,  1727;  sponsors,  Cornelis 
Elmendorf  and  Engeltje  Heermans ;  m.  at  Rochester,  Ulster  County, 
March  19,  1755,  Die>vertje  (Deborah)  Van  Wagenen  (living  at  Keysericke), 
bapt.  Feb.  6,  1732,  daughter  of  Benjamin  Van  Wagenen  and  Elizabeth 
Van  den  Berg. 

27.  iv.  Jan,3  bapt.  at  Kingston,  Feb.  i,  1730;  sponsors,  Jacob  Has- 
brouck and  Ester  Bevier;  m.  at  Kingston,  Dec.  24,  1763,  Rachel  Van 
Wagenen,  of  Wagendal,  daughter  of  Johannes  Van  Wagenen  and  Elizabeth 
Freer,  bapt.  May  13,  1741.     She  m.  (2),  about  1769,  Petrus  Schoonmaker. 

28.  V.  Daniel,^  bapt.  at  New  Paltz,  Oct.  18,  1732;  sponsors,  Daniel 
Dubois  and  Marie  Dubois. 


264  Early  Settlers  of  Ulster  County.  [Oct., 

29.  vi.  SiMON,3  bapt.  at  Kingston,  Dec.  25,  1735;  sponsors,  Simon 
Lefever  and  Petronella  Gaasbeck. 

30.  vii.  Petrus,^  bapt.  at  Kingston,  Aug.  20,  1738;  m.  at  New  Paltz, 
Oct.  26,  1765,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Abraham  Bevier  and  Margaret  Elting, 
bapt.  at  Kingston,  June  24,  1744. 

31.  viii.  Elias,3  bapt.  June  21,  1741;  m.  EUzabeth  Slecht. 

Family  5. 
Children  of  Daniel  ^  Hasbrotick  {No.  6)  and  Wyntje  Deyo. 

32.  i.  Maria,3  bapt.  at  New  Paltz,  Jan.  9,  1735;  sponsors,  Solomon 
Hasbrouck  and  Sara  Van  VVagenen. 

2,T,.  ii.  JoNAS,3  bapt.  at  New  Paltz,  May,  13,  1736;  sponsors,  Abra- 
ham and  Elizabeth  Deyo ;  m.  Catharine,  daughter  of  Jehosaphat  Dubois. 

34.  iii.  David,3  bapt.  at  New  Paltz,  June  8,  1740;  sponsors,  Isaac 
Hasbrouck  and  Mary  Frere. 

35.  iv.  Elsie,3  bapt.  at  New  Paltz,  July  4,  1742  ;  sponsors,  Isaac  and 
Rachel  Hasbrouck ;  m.  Petrus  Smedes,  Jr. 

36.  V.  Rachel,3  bapt.  at  New  Paltz,  Oct.  30,  1743  ;  sponsors,  Antonie 
Hoffmann  and  Catharine  Van  Gaasbeck. 

37.  vi.  JosiA,3  bapt.  at  Kingston,  April  13,  1746;  sponsors,  Abraham 
Hasbrouck  and  Catharine  Bruyn. 

38.  vii.  Benjamin,^  bapt.  at  Kingston,  Jan.  31,  1748;  sponsors,  Jo- 
hannes Hardenberg  and  Maria  Dubois. 

(In  the  will  of  Wyntje  Hasbrouck,  widow  of  Daniel  Hasbrouck,  of  New 
Paltz,  dated  June  23,  1781,  two  other  children  are  mentioned  besides  those 
whose  baptisms  are  given  above ;  namely,  Josaphat  (who  was  probably 
born  in  1738)  and  Zacharias.) 

Family  6. 

Children  of  Abraham  ^  Hasbrouck  {No.  14)  and  Catharine  Bruyn. 

39.  i.  Catharine,"  bapt.  at  Kingston,  April  4,  1740;  d.  Dec.  5,  1747. 

40.  ii.  Elsie/  bapt.  at  Kingston,  Feb.  28,  1742  ;  d.  June  14,  1812  ; 
m.,  Nov.  9,  1770,  Abram,  son  of  Abram  Salisbury  and  Rachel  Ten  Broeck, 
b.  Dec.  5,  1744;  d.  Feb.  22,  1808. 

41.  iii.  Joseph,"*  bapt.  at  Kingston,  March  4,  1744  ;  d.  Feb.  26,  1808  ; 
m.,  March  25,  1773,  Elizabeth  Bevier;  d.  May  4,  1795. 

42.  iv.  Geertruyd,'*  b.  Jan.  12,  1746;  d.  July  29,  1746. 

43.  V.  Geertruyd,'*  b.  Nov.  i,  1747;  d.  Dec.  4,  1747. 

44.  vii.  Catharine,"  b.  Jan.  15,  1749;  d.  Aug.  27,  1807;  m.,  Nov.'9, 
1770,  Abraham  Hoogteling. 

45.  viii.  Maria,"  bapt.  at  Kingston,  July  7,  1751;  d.   Nov.  29,  1816 
m.,  Jan.  25,  1778,  David  Bevier,  who  died  June  17,  1822. 

46.  ix.  Jacobus,"  bapt.  at  Kingston,  Sept.  28,  1753;  d,  July  4,  1819 
m.  at  Kingston,  April  10,  1783,  Maria  De  Witt,  b.  Sept.  28,  1760  ;  d.  July 
18,  1798  ;  daughter  of  Charles  De  Witt  and  Blandina  Dubois. 

47.  X.  Abraham,"  bapt.  at  Kingston,  Feb.  8,  1756;  d.  June  10,  1796 
unmarried. 

48.  xi.  Daniel,"  bapt.  at  Kingston,  Jan.  29,  1758;  d.  March  6,  1759 

49.  xii.  Daniel,"  bapt.  at  Kingston,  March  9,  1760;  m.,  June  i,  1786 
Rachel,  daughter  of  Col.  Jonathan  Hasbrouck,  of  Newburg  (23). 


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50.  xiii.  Jonathan/  bapt.  at  Kingston,  Nov.  6,  1763;  d.  Aug.  4, 
1846  ;,m.,  Oct.  I,  1786,  Catharine,  daughter  of  Cornehus  C.  Wynkoop 
and  Maria  Catharine  Ruhl,  b.  Oct.  24,  1763  ;  bapt.  in  New  York,  Nov. 
20,  1763;  d.  Feb.  II,  1846,  at  Kingston,  N.  Y. 

Family  7. 
Children  of  Sarah  ^  Hashrouck  {No.  15)  atid  Willia?n  Osterhoudt. 

51.  i.  Elsie/  bapt.  at  Kingston,  April  5,  1741. 

52.  ii,  Joseph,''  bapt.  at  Kingston,  Jan.  5,  1746. 

Family  8. 
Children  of  Maria '^  Hasbrouck  {No.  18)  and  Ja7i  Gasherie. 

53.  i.  Joseph,''  bapt.  at  New  York,  April  4,  1736;  sponsors,  Nicholas 
Antony  and  Hester  Roome,  syn.  h.  v. 

54.  ii.  Abraham,'*  bapt.  at  New  York,  Oct.  19,  1737  ;  sponsors,  Jobs. 
Hardenberg  and  Judith  Gasherie,  wed.  van  Lucas  Brainer. 

55.  iii.  Abraham,''  bapt.  at  New  York,  July  4,  1739  ;  sponsors,  Gerrit 
Van  VVagenen  and  Judith  Gasherie,  wed.  van  Lucas  Brainer. 

56.  iv.  Elsie,"  bapt.  at  Kingston,  Feb.  13,  1743;  sponsors,  Abraham 
Hasbrouck  and  Catharine  Bruyn. 

Children  by  second  husband — Abraham  Hardenberg. 

57.  V.  Nicholas,''  bapt.  at  New  Paltz,  May  16,  1753. 

58.  vi.   Elias,''  bapt.  at' New  Paltz,  Jan.  20,  1754. 

59.  vii.  Maritje,-'  bapt.  at  New  Paltz,  Jan.  16,  1757. 

60.  viii.  Rachel,''  bapt.  at  New  Paltz,  Aug.  20,  1758. 

Family  9. 
Children  of  Jacob^  Hasbrouck  {No.  20)  and  Maria  Hoornbeck. 

61.  i.  Annatje,*  mentioned  in  her  father's  will.  No  record  of  bap- 
tism.    Probably  born  in  1748. 

62.  ii.  Elsie, ^  b.  March  20,  1750,  bapt.  at  Kingston,  April  i,  1750,  d. 
June  28,  1832,  m.  Feb.  28,  1782,  Thomas  De  Witt,  son  of  Egbert  De  Witt 
and  Mary  Nottingham. 

6  J,,   iii.   Mary,''  bapt.  at  Rochester,  Ulster  Co.,  April  22,  1752. 

64.  iv.  Joseph,'  bapt.  at  Marbletown,  Sept.  14,  1754. 

65.  V.   Rachel,^  bapt.  at  Marbletown,  Aug.  23,  1757. 

66.  vi.  Ariaantje,^  bapt.  at  Kingston,  Oct.  22,  1759,  '"•  Simeon  De- 
puy. 

Family  10. 
Children  of  Benjamin  ^  Hasbrouck  {No.  21)  a?id  Lydia  Schoonmaker. 

67.  i.   Eva,*  bapt.  at  New  Paltz,  Oct,  27,  1753. 

68.  ii.   Elsie,*  bapt.  at  Shawangunk,  Jan.  17,  1756. 

69.  iii.   Sarah,*  bapt.  at  New  Paltz,  May  13,  1764. 

70.  iv.  Benjamin,"  bapt.  at  Shawangunk,  1766. 

71.  V.  Cornelis,'  b.  1769. 


266  Early  Settlers  of  Ulster  County.  [Oct., 

Descendants  of  Jean  Hasbrouck,  the  Emigrant.     See  page  261. 
Children  of  Jean  Hasbrouck  and  Anna  Deyo. 

1.  i,  Maria,^  b.  at  Mannheim,  Germany  ;  m.  at  Kingston,  N.  Y.,  June 
I,  1683,  Isaac  Dubois,  b.  at  Mannheim,  Germany,  son  of  Louis  Dubois 
and  Catharine  Blanshan.     Family  2. 

Louis  Dubois  died  at  New  Paltz,  June  28,  1690. 

2.  ii,  Hester,'^  b.  at  Mannheim,  Germany,  m,  at  Kingston,  April  18, 
1692,  Pierre  Guimard,  b.  at  Moise,  Province  of  Saintonge,  France,  son  of 
Pierre  Guimard  and  Anne  Damour. 

The  will  of  Pierre  Guimard  (Jr.),  of  Magachemeck,  Ulster  Co.  (now 
town  of  Deerpark,  Orange  Co.),  is  dated  Sept.  24,  1726.  It  mentions  his 
only  son,  Pierre,  to  whom  he  gives  all  the  real  estate  ;  and  his  daughters, 
Hester,  wife  of  Phillip  Dubois  ;  Anna,  wife  of  Jacobus  Swartwout,  Jr. ; 
Mary  and  Elizabeth.  The  executors  named  are  his  son,  Pierre,  and  his 
sons  in-law,  Dubois  and  Swartwout.  Witnesses,  Louis  Bevier,  Stephen 
Nottingham,  and  W.  Nottingham.  Proved  at  Kingston,  Oct.  4,  1732.  E. 
Whittaker,  Surrogate.  Recorded  in  N.  Y.  Surrogate's  ofifice,  Lib.  11  of 
Wills,  p.  395.  The  name  in  the  Dutch  Ch.  Records  of  Kingston  is  given 
as  Pieter  Geemar.  It  is  now  spelled  Gumaer  (see  Ruttenber  and  Clark's 
Hist,  of  Orange  Co.).     Family  3. 

3.  iii.  Abraham,"  bapt.  at  Kingston,  March  31,  1678;  sponsors,  Abra- 
ham Hasbrouck  and  Margaret  Deyo. 

4.  iv.  Elizabeth,''  bapt.  at  New  Paltz,  April  4,  1685  ;  sponsors,  Pierre 
and  Elizabeth  Deyo  ;  m.  at  Kingston,  June  2,  1713,  Louis  Bevier.  Fam- 
ily 4.  ... 

5.  v.  Jacob, °  bapt.  at  New  Paltz,  April  15,  1688  ;  sponsors,  Louis 
Bevier  and  Mary  Le  Blanc  ;  m.  at  Kingston,  Dec.  7,  1714,  Ester  Bevier. 
His  will  is  dated  Sept.  25,  1747,  at  New  Paltz  ;  mentions  wife.  Ester,  and 
children,  Benjamin,  Isaac,  and  Jacob,  Executors,  his  wife  and  three 
sons.     Proved  Sept.  15,  1761.     Jan  Elting,  Surrogate.     Family  5. 

Pamily  2. 
Children  of  Maria  "^  Hasbrouck  [No.  1.)  and  Isaac  Dubois. 

6.  i.  Daniel,' bapt.  at  New  Paltz,  April  28,  1684;  sponsors,  Louis 
Dubois  and  Catharine  Blanshan  ;  m.  Marytje  Lefever. 

7.  ii.  Benjamin,'  bapt.  at  New  Paltz,  April  16,  1689  ;  sponsors,  Abra- 
ham Dubois  and  Anne  Deyo  ;  m.  at  Kingston,  March  30,  1721,  Catharine 
Zuylandt. 

8.  iii.  Philip,'  bapt.  at  New  Paltz,  May  14,  1690  ;  sponsors,  John 
and  Ester  Hasbrouck;  m.  at  Kingston,  June  20,  171 7,  Ester  Gemaar, 
daughter  of  Pierre  Gemaar  (Guimard)  and  Ester  Hasbrouck  (No.  2). 

Family  3. 
Children  of  Hester'  Hasbrouck  [No.  2)  and  Pierre  Guimard  {Gumaer.) 

9.  i.  Anna, 5  bapt.  at  Kingston,  June  3,  1694;  sponsor,  Maria  Has- 
brouck ;  m.  at  Kingston,  May  30,  1721,  Jacobus  Swartwout,  bapt.  at  Kings- 
ston,  March  29,  1696,  son  of  Anthony  Swartwout  and  Jannetje  Coobes. 

10.  ii.  Ester,3  bapt.  at  Kingston,  May  16,  1697  ;  sponsors,  Isaac  and 
Anna  Hasbrouck;  m.  at  Kingston,  June  20,  171 7,  Philip,  son  of  Isaac 
Dubois  and  Maria  Hasbrouck  (8). 


i886.J  Early  Settlers  of  Ulster  County.  267 

11.  iii.  Rachel,3  bapt.  at  Kingston,  March  4,  1700;  sponsors,  An- 
dries  Lefever  and  Rachel  Hasbrouck. 

12.  iv.  Maritje,3  bapt.  at  Kingston,  Jan.  24,  1703;  m.  at  Kingston, 
April  24,  1 728,  Jan  Elting,  son  of  Roeloff  Elting  and  Sara  Dubois  (Genea- 
logical AND  Biographical  Record,  vol.  xvi.,  p.  29). 

13.  V.  Elizabeth, 3  bapt.  at  Kingston,  March  24,  1706;  sponsors, 
Daniel  Dubois  and  Elizabeth  Hasbrouck. 

14.  vi.  Pieter  3  (Pierre),  bapt.  about  1710;  m.  at  Kingston,  March 
17,  1730,  Taatje  De  Witt,  bapt.  at  Kingston,  Oct.  12,  1710,  daughter  of 
Jacob  De  Witt  and  Grietje  Vernooy. 

Family  4. 
Child  of  Elizabeth "  Hasbrouck  {No.  4)  and  Louis  Bevier. 

15.  i.  Louis,3  bapt.  at  Kingston,  June  9,  1717;  d.  Sept.  29,  1772; 
m.  at  Kingston,  Oct.  24,  1745,  Ester  Dubois,  daughter  of  Philip  Dubois 
and  Ester  Gemaar  (No.  8);  had  children:  David,  bapt.  Dec.  28,  1746; 
Elizabeth,  bapt.  June  11,  1749;  Phihp  Dubois,  bapt.  Jan.  i,  1752;  all 
bapt.  at  Kingston. 

Family  5. 

Children  of  Jacob '  Hasbrouck  {No.  5)  and  Ester  Bevier. 

16.  i.  Jan,3  bapt.  at  Kingston,  Dec.  16,  1716  ;  sponsors,  Louis  Bevier 
and  Elizabeth  Hasbrouck. 

17.  ii.  Benjamin,^  bapt.  at  Kingston,  May  17,  1719;  sponsors,  Philip 
Dubois  and  Hester  Gemaar. 

18.  iii.  Isaac,3  bapt.  at  Kingston,  March  11,  1722  ;  sponsors,  Abra- 
ham Bevier  and  Rachel  Vernoy  ;  m.,  Aug.  30,  1745,  Maria  Bruyn,  bapt. 
June  23,  1723;  d.  Oct.  8,  1776,  daughter  of  Jacobus  Bruyn  and  Wyntje 
Schoonmaker.     Family  6. 

19.  iv.  Lewis,'  bapt.  at  Kingston,  Feb.  21,  1725  ;  sponsors,  Nicholas 
Hoffman  and  Jannetje  Crispel. 

20.  V.  Jacob,3  bapt.  at  Kingston,  May  7,  1727  ;  sponsors,  Daniel  Has- 
brouck and  Elizabeth  Bevier. 

21.  vi.  JosAPHAT,3  bapt.  at  New  Paltz,  April  29,  1729;  sponsors, 
Daniel  Hasbrouck  and  Jacob  Hasbrouck  ;  m.  Cornelia  Dubois. 

Family  6. 
Children  of  Isaac '^  Hasbrouck  {No.  18)  and  Maria  Bruyn. 

22.  i.  Jacob,'*  bapt.  at  Kingston,  Oct.  5,  1746;  sponsors,  Benjamin 
Hasbrouck  and  Annetje  Bruyn  ;  d.  in  infancy. 

23.  ii."  Jacob,'*  bapt.  at  Kingston,  Feb.  19,  1749;  sponsors,  Severyn 
and  Anna  Bruyn. 

24.  iii.  Jacobus  Bruyn,-*  bapt.  Dec.  i,  1753,  at  Marbletown  ;  sponsors, 
Solomon  Van  Wagenen  and  Annetje  Bruyn  ;  m.  Annetje,  daughter  of 
David  Abeel  and  Neeltje  Van  Bergen,  bapt.  at  Kaatsbaan,  April  8,  1760  ; 
d.  July  12,  1833. 

25.  iv.  Severyn,*  bapt.  at  Kingston,  Jan.  i,  1756. 

26.  v.  Maria,-*  bapt.  at  New  Paltz,  Feb.  5,  1758. 

27.  vi.  Hester,"*  bapt.  at  Marbletown,  Aug.  12,  1762. 

28.  vii.  Benjamin,-*  bapt.  at  Marbletown,  April  3,  1764. 

29.  viii.  Louis,"  bapt.  at  Marbletown,  Feb.  5,  1767. 

30.  ix.  Anna,"  bapt.  at  Marbletown,  June  25,  1769. 


268         Records  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  in  New  York.  [Oct., 

RECORDS  OF    THE   REFORMED  DUTCH  CHURCH    IN   THE 
CITY  OF  NEW  YORK.— Baptisms. 

(Continued  from  Vol.  XVII.,  p.  231,  of  The  Record.) 


Septemb:  12. 


A'   1 714.  OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

Johannes  Van  Diier-  Hester. 

se,  Jannetje    Mar- 
shal. 
PhiUppus   Van    Bor-  Elizabeth. 

s6m,  Margrietje 

Willems. 
Benjamin   Wynkoop,  Maria. 

Femmetje  Van  der 

Heiil. 
Gilbert   Liveston,  Henricus. 

Cornelia  Beekman. 

Septemb.  3.     Samuel     Kranckling,  Loiiwerens. 

Jannetje  Hey. 
John  S  t  a  ff,  Aaltje  Elizabeth. 

Schars. 
12.  Hendrikus   Van    der  Johannes. 

Spiegel,    Anneke 

Provoost. 

Wynant  Van't.  Zant,  Margrietje. 
Catharina  Ten  Yk. 

Victoor    Hyer,    Jan-  Teuntje. 

netje  Van  Gelder. 
Jacob    Brat,   Aegje  Johanna. 

Everts. 
Jacobtis   Van    D  y  k.  Dirk. 

Maria  HoUaar. 
Claas  Bogert,  Grietje  Elizabeth. 

Concelje. 
Thomas  Pouvvel,  Jan-  Wyntje. 

netje  Waldrom. 

Gerrardiis     Comfert,  Annatje. 

Catharina    Henne- 

jon. 
Hans  Kierstede,  Ma-  Rachel. 

ria  Van  Vlek. 
Corn  el  us   VVeynat,  Willem  Jo- 

Tryntje  Boiimans.         ris. 
October  6.       Hendrik  Montras,  Margrietje. 

Elizabeth  Jeffers. 
Baltus  de  Hart,  Mar-  Moiiris. 

grietje  Mourits. 

Jan    Canon,   Marytje  Catharina. 
Legran. 


15. 
19. 
22. 

28. 


GETUYGEN. 

Johannes  Aartse,  Annatje 
V  d'.  Spiegel. 

Fredrik  Willemse,  Eliza- 
beth Montanje. 

Jacob  Boele,  Jaquemyntje 
Abrams. 

Hendrikus  Beekman, 
Robb.  Liveston  J',  Jo- 
hanna Beekman. 

Leverence  Kr  a  nek  ley, 
Engeltje  Kranckley. 

Jan  Pouwelse,  Aaltje  Van 
Dyk. 

Rip  Van  Dam,  Margrie- 
tje Van  Br  ugh. 


Johannes  Van't  Zant, 
Margrietje  Van  't  Zant, 
s.  h.  V. 

Willem  Hyer,  Dorathe  de 

Graw. 

Barent  &    )  -n     .... 
c  -  \  Bratt. 

busanna     j 

Pieter  Van  Dyk,  Urseltje 

Van  Dyk,  s:  moeder. 
Pieter    Haering,    Grietje 

Bogert. 
Willem   Van   de    Water, 

Willem    Waldrom, 

Wyntje  Byvank. 
Gidion  Lynce,  Elizabeth 

Burger. 

Abraham  Van  Vlek, 
Maria  Romme. 

Pieter  Van  Tilburg  Jn'., 
Chustina  Bouman. 

Hendrik  Buys,  D  i  r  k  j  e 
Lammers. 

Jacobus  Mouris,  Jacob 
Kip  inpleats,  Cornelia 
Mouris  j.  dog*. 

Anthony  Rutgers,  Catha- 
rina Rutgers,  h.  v.  van 
Harmamis  Rutgers. 


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A°  1714. 


17- 


OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

Barnardus  Smith,  Gerretje. 

Annatje  Colevelt. 
Frans  Van  Dyk,  Re-  Frans. 

suele  Montras. 


Isaac   Gouverneur,  Sara. 

Sara  Staats. 

Philip  Sch6yler,  Anna  Johanna. 

Elizabeth  Staats, 

31. 

Carste    Burger,   Sara  Sara. 

Waldrom. 

Bent  Wesselse,  Maria  Annatje. 

Brestede. 

(364) 

• 

Novenil 

y.  10.   Frans  Reyerse,   Jen-  Antje. 

neke  Dy. 

14. 

H  u  y  b  e  r  t   Van  den  Gerret. 

Berg,  Maritje  Lan- 

cing. 

Johannes   Bant,  Wil-  Marretje. 

lemyntje  Filips. 

Coenraat   Ten  Y  k,  Elizabeth, 

Zara  Van  Vorst. 

27. 


Decemb:  3. 


Abraham  Van  Vlek,  Johannes, 

Maria  Kip. 
Johannes    Hooglant,  Frans. 

Catharina    Goede- 

rus, 
Nicolaas  Someren- Theiinis, 

dyk,   Margrietje 

Heermans, 
Schibolet     Bogardiis,  Ephraim. 

Anna  de  Charme. 
Casparus  Blank,  Ag-  Isaac. 

nietje  Post. 
Barent  de    Freest,  Femnietje. 

Catlyntje  Cerley. 

Cornelus  Louw,  Mar-  Wilhelmus, 

grietje   Van   Bor- 

sum. 
Petrus  Kip,  Immetje  Jacobiis, 

Van  Dyk. 

Johannes   Aartse,  Evert. 

Maria  Marshel. 
Johannes  Van    Kou-  Jacobus. 

wenhove,      Rachel 

Bensing. 


GETUYGEN. 

Justus   Bosch,  Annatje 

SmithjT.  h.  vrouw. 
Abraham     Van    Gelder, 

Catlyntje    Post,    s:   h^ 

vrouw. 
Stephanus  Van  Cortlant, 

Johanna  Staats. 
Samuel   Staats,   Cornelia 

Schiayler. 

Manes  Burger,  Sara  Wal- 
drom, Se'. 

Johannes  &) 
Annatje    ) 

Pouwelus  Turk,  Antje 
Reyers. 

Rip  Van  Dam,  Margrie- 
tje Harding. 

Stefan  us  Van  Cortlant, 
Catharina  Wendel, 

Jacobus  Krankheyt,  Eli- 
zabeth Hegeman,  s. 
h.  V. 

Abraham  Kip,  Marytje 
Kierstede. 

Adolph  de  Groof,  Re- 
becka  Goederus. 

Theunis  Cornelisse,  Antje 
Claase. 

Petrus    Bogardus,    Anna 

Miller. 
Isaac  Blank,  Lidia  Loots, 

s:  h'.  vrouw. 
Johannes  Douvv,  (Theop- 

tulis)  Pels,  Elizabeth 

Pels. 
Gerret  Schuyler,  Aefje  de 

Groof,  s  h''  vrouw. 

Jacobus  Van  Dyk,  Mary- 
tje Van  Dyk,  s:  h' 
vrouw. 

Pieter  Brestede,  Wyntje 
Aartse. 

Frans  Van  Couwenhove, 
Antje  Van  Couwen- 
hove. 


2  70         Records  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  in  New  York. 
A*  1714. 


[Oct., 


8. 


OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

Jan    Brestede,    Anna  Jenneke. 

Maria  Elzewarth. 
Nicolaas  Mathyse,  Abraham. 

Marytje  Lakeman. 
Adolph   de   G  r  o  o  f,  Sara. 

Rachel  Goederus. 
John    Cruger,   Maria  Sara. 

Cuyler. 

(365) 

Decemb:  8.     Pieter  Stoutenburg,  Tryntje. 
Johanna  Erie. 

Johannes  Vreden-  Cornelia, 
blirg,    Annatje    de 
Lamontanje.  * 

Burger  Sipkens,  Ma-  Elsje. 
ria  Hibon. 


Hendrik    Van    Dyk,  Marytje. 

Jannetje  Andries 

Obyt. 
Wander  Didrix,  Aal-  Abraham. 

tje  Gerrets. 
Daniel  Van  Winkel,  Cornelus. 

Jannetje  Vrelant. 
Willem    Rome,    Sara  Marretje. 

Turk. 
Justus  Bosch,  Anne-  Barnardus. 

tje  Smith. 
Abraham     Van    Gel-  Elias. 

der,    Catlyntje 

Post. 
Johannes  Van  Harts-  Catharina. 

berge,    Catharina 

-Walters. 
Joris    Elsewart,    Jan-  Jannetje. 

netje  MeseroU. 


15. 


19. 


25. 


26. 


Theophiltis  Pels,  Eli-  Catlyntje. 

zabeth  Blauwvelt. 
John  Cure,   Gerretje  Sara. 

•Cosyn., 
Jan  Kramer,  Engeltje  Willemyntje, 

Burger. 

Andries  Ten  Yk,  Gerrardus. 

Barendina  Harden- 

berg. 
Jan-  Hyer,    Jannetje  Walter. 

Stjmits. 


GETUYGEN, 

Cornelus  Kierstede,  Sara 
Elsewart,    s:  h":  vroiiw. 

Hasuel  Mathyse,  Marre- 
tje Mathyse,  s:  h:  v: 

Johannes  Brestede,  Sara 
Hibon, 

j^om  Petrus  Van  Driesse, 
Elsje  Cuyler. 

Hendrikus  Van  der  Spie- 
gel, A  n  t  j  e  Stouten- 
burg, 

Cornelus  Turk,  Elizabeth 
Turk. 

Johannes  Van  de  Water, 
Baafje  Sipkens,  s:  h: 
vro<iw. 

Willem  Sims,  Marretje,  s: 
h^  vroiiw. 

Hendrik   Klaase,    Belitje 

Dircks. 
Machiel  Vrelant,  Tryntje 

Van  Winkel, 
Pieter  Rome,  Marretje 

Turk. 
Samliel  Staats,  Catharina 

Bedlo,   s:  h^  vro6w. 
Willem   Rome,  Pieters  z. 

Helena  Post. 

John  Walters,  Elizabeth 
Swart. 

Theophiliis       Elsewarth, 

Sara  Ver  Duyn,  s:  h: 

vrouw. 
Evert  Pels,  Tryntje  Aal- 

steyn. 
Jacob  (is  Kip,  S'^,  Vrouw- 

tje  Quik. 
Johannes  Van  de  Water, 

Baefje    Sipkens,    s:   h: 

vrouw. 
Johannes      Hardenberg, 

Jaapje,  syn  moeder. 

Walter  Hyer,  Se',  Sara 
Hyer,  h.  v.  v.  Gerret 
Hyer. 


1 886.]        Records  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  in  New  York.  271 


A"    I715.  OUDERS.  HINDERS. 

Janliary  2.       Joseph    Robinson,  Joseph. 
Maria  de  Kleyn. 


5- 
9- 

19. 


John   Herres,"  Janne-  Elizabeth 

tje  Nessepat. 
Richard    Cox,  Antje  John. 

Cox.  Maria. 

Johannes  Janse,  An-  Johanna, 
na  Lierse. 


GETUYGEN, 

Michiel  Vaughten,  Cor- 
n  eli  a  de  Kleyn, 
Wed. 

Dirk  Bensen,  Catharina 
Van  Deurse. 

Thomas  Hopper,  Corne- 
lia Mohone,  Jan  Van 
Pelt,  Maria  Russel. 

Benjamin  Herring,  Mar- 
retje  Van  der  Spiegel, 
Wed. 


(366) 

January  19. 

Philip    Lyon,    Eliza-  Sara. 

Fredrik              \  Van    der 
Margrietje    \     Schure. 

beth  Van  der  Schu- 

23.  Jacobus  Bayard,  Hil-  Samuel, 

legend  de  Kay. 

Corneliis  Van  Thien-  Lucas, 
hove,  Geertruy 
Hibon. 
26.     ,  John   Anderson,    Ju-  Jan. 

dith  Jans. 
Jan  Van  Buyren,  Ma-  Michiel. 

rytje  Myer. 
John  Main,  Elizabeth  Jacobus. 
Van  Deurse. 
30.  Jacob  Charmo,  Dirkje  Pieter. 

Van  Tilbiirg. 

Abraham  de   Lanoy,  Maria. 

Jannetje  Rome. 
Jesse  de  Lamontanje,  Jan. 

Gerretje  Jeeds. 

Febrtiary  6.      Nicolaas      Rosevelt,  Nicolaas. 
Sara  Solleman. 

9.  Johannes  C  a  r  b  i  1  e,  Susanna. 

Margrietje  Pro- 

voost. 
Jan  Van  Pelt,  Aaltje  Mary  tje. 

Hooglant. 
13.  Benjamin     Quakken-  Benjamin. 

bos,  Claasje  Web- 
ber. 
20.  Jtirian  Witvelt,  Maria  Justus. 

Ten  Yk. 
F  i  n  c  e  n  t     Bodine,  Hester. 

Heyltje  Smith. 


Samuel  Beyard,  Marga- 
reta  Van  Cortlant,  s. 
h:  v: 

Barent  Hibon,  Tryntje 
Van  Thienhove. 

J^"^",.    I  Emmet. 
Engeltje  \ 

Johannes  Myer,  Cornelia 

Timmer.    . 
Jan    Herres,    Margrietje 

Vant'  Zant. 
Pieter  Van   Tilbiirg,  Jn', 

Schibolet    Bogardus, 

Anna  Bogardus. 
Johannes  de  Lanoy,  Ma- 
ria Beekman. 
Jan    de    Lamontanje    & 

Elizabeth  Blom,   s:  h*: 

vr. 
Nicolaas     Rosevelt,   ?>"., 

Hillegond  Rosevelt,  s: 

h^  v^ 
Matheiis    Bensen,    Anna 

Maknight. 

Abraham  Leffers,  Mary- 

tje  Van  Pelt. 
Cornelus  Webber,  Claasje 

Woertendyk. 

Elbert  Aartse,  Annatje 
Ten  Yk,  s:  h:  vr: 

M'  Rusje,  M"  Rusje,  s: 
h^  vrouw. 


2^2         Records  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  in  New  York.  [Oct. 


A*  1715. 


23- 


27. 


Meert  4. 


(367) 
Meert  4. 


6. 
9- 
13. 
16. 


27. 


30. 


OUDKRS.  KINDERs. 

Stephanus  Van  Cort-  Geertruyd. 
lant,  C  a  th  ali  n  a 
Staats. 

Robberd  Sjeklen,  Ca-  Rachel, 
tharina  Mortier. 


Jacob    Salomonse,  Samdel. 

Elizabeth  De. 
Bartholomeus  Antje. 

Schaats,    Christina 

Kermer. 
J  o  r  i  s    Breuwerton,  Sara. 

Maria  Ver  Dfiyn. 


Enog    Vrelant,     Ze',  EUas. 
Aefje  Van  Hoorn. 


John  Stout,    Abigael 

Bill. 
Pieter    Post,    Catha- 

rina  Beekman. 
Willem    Beek,    Alida 

Turk. 
Edfiard  Men,  Marytje 

Van  Duurse. 
William    Gloever, 

Margrietje  Blom. 
Wessel  Wesselse, 

Ju',,    Rachel    Van 

Imburg. 
Gerret    Schuyler, 

Aegje  de  Groof. 
Johannes      Brestede, 

Rebecca  Onkel- 

bag. 
Davidt  Provoost,  Jo- 

nath:  Z.,  Christina 

Pra. 
William  Waldrom,  Jo- 
hanna Nagel. 
Isaac  Van    Deurse, 

Annatje  Waldrom. 
Albartus    Coenradus 

Bosch,    Maria 

Jeads. 
Johannes   de    Freest, 

Catharina  Rave- 

steyn. 


Am  mare  n- 

tia. 
Samuel. 

Marytje. 

Elizabeth. 

Hester. 

Jannetje. 

Aegje. 
Andries. 

Jonathan. 

Johanna. 

Abraham. 

Antje. 

Hendriktis. 


GETUYGEN. 

Philippes   Van    Cortlant, 

Catharina  Staats,  h.  v'. 

van  Samuel  Staats. 
Johannes  Mortier,  Corne- 

liis  Van   T  i  e  n  h  o  v  e, 

Tryntje  Van  Thien- 

hove. 
Mathys  ten  Berg,  Siisan- 

na  Symese. 
Hendrik  Kermer,  Catlyn- 

tje  Schaats. 

Hendrik  Ver  Duyn,  Dirk 
Bensing,  Gerret  Van 
Hoorn,  Sara  Ver 
Duyn. 

David  Cosaar,  Elizabeth 
Kierstede. 

Pieter   Cristiaanse,    Mili- 

ora  Narvvoed. 
Pieter  Van  Houte,  Claar- 

tje,  s:  h^  vrouvv. 
Cornelus   Beek,    Aaltje 

Pel. 
John  Men,  Annatje  Van 

Deurse. 
John    Lie  wis,    Hester 

Blom,  JennekeTenton. 
G  y  s  b  e  r  t  Van  Imburg, 

Jannetje   Mesier.   s:  h* 

V'. 

Oloph  Schuyler,  Cornelia 

Schuyler,  Wed. 
Andries  Brestede,   Antje 

Brestede,  Wed^ 

Pieter  Pra,  Catharina 
Provoost,  Wed*. 

Jacob    Dykman,    Wyntje 

By  van  k. 
Abraham    Van    Deurse, 

Annatje  Van  Deurse. 
Christoffel   Jeadts,   Hiiy- 

bertje  Merceles. 

Hendrikus  Van  der  Spie- 
gel, Marretje  Van  der 
Spiegel,  VVed. 


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A°  1715. 
April  3. 


17. 


(368) 
April  17. 

18. 


24. 
May  I. 


15- 


29. 


OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

Abraham  Vreden-  Elizabeth. 

burg,  Dorathe  Col- 

jer. 
Anthony  Liewis,  Jan-  Johanna. 

netje  Marens. 
Fredrik   Willemse,  Elizabeth. 

Maria  Waldroni. 

C  o  s  y  n     Andriesse,  Margrietje. 

Margrietje     Some- 

rendyk. 
Evert   Pels,   Grietje  Annetje. 

Melcherts  Van 

Deurse. 
Benjamin  Bil,  Geesje  Penellope. 

Brevoor. 

Philip  Daly,  Cornelia  Marytje. 

Van  Gelder. 
Hendrikus    Kermer,  Abraham, 

Jaquemyntje  Rave- 

steyn. 
M  a  r  t  i  n  u  s   Crigier,  Henrikus. 

Margrietje  Dalsen. 
Hendrik  Brevoord,  Elias. 

Jaquemyntje  Boke. 
Jacob   Blom,    Mayke  Elizabeth. 

Bosch. 
Alexander  Lam,  Eli-  Rachel. 

zabeth  Coning. 
Albartus   Hulst,  Aal-  Cornelia. 

tje  Provoost. 

Nathaniel   Daly,  Elizabeth. 

Saartje  H<iysman. 
Davidt  Cosaar,  Styn-  Jannnetje. 

tje  Joris. 
Willem  Van  de  Wa-  Hendrikus. 

ter,  Aefje  Ringo. 
Fran  c  i  s    Silvester,  Susanna. 

Ytje  Bosch. 

Thomas  Liewis,  An-  Elizabeth. 

na  Maria  Van  den 

Burgh. 
Corneliis    Post,    Ca-  Davidt. 

tharina  Potman. 
Richard  Crieger,  Ma-  Josua. 

ria  Crieger. 
Samuel    S  h  a  h  a  a  n,  Jannetje. 

Neeltje  Cosyn. 


GETUYGEN. 


Abraham 
Cornelia 


Brouwer. 


Goose  Van  Schaik,  Jo- 
hanna Van  Stry. 

Philippus  Van  Bossen, 
Catharina  Boele,  h^  v'. 
van  Isaac  Boeke. 

Jacob  Somerendyk,  Cat- 
lyntje  Pieters. 

Johannes  Romme,  Pieter- 
nella  Elzewarth. 

John  Stout.,  Marretje 
Van  der  Spiegel,  Wed. 

Abraham    Van  Gelder, 

Elizabeth  Daly. 

Jeames   )  t,    ••     j  .. 
Belitje     [Rey^^det. 

David  Provoost,  Jn',  Eli- 
zabeth Crigiers. 

Jacob<is  Boke,  Tanneke 
Boke,  s:  suster. 

Fredrik  Willemse,  Anna- 
tje  Hjver. 

John  Johnson,  Elizabeth 
Lynse. 

Stefan  us  Boekenhove, 
Annatje  Hulst,  s.  h^ 
vrouw. 

Antje  Van  Noorstrant. 

Jan  Goelet,  Lea  Cosaar. 

Theunis  Tiebout,  Eliza- 
beth Van  dc  Water. 

Johannes  Hardenbroek, 
Annetje  Hardenb'',  s: 
h:v: 

Leonard  Lieuwis,  Rey- 
merig  AppeL 

Davidt  Provoost,  Catlyn- 

tje  Van  Gelder. 
Anna  France 

Jan  Schoute,  Gerretje  de 
Graw. 


274  Records  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  in  New  York.        [Oct., 


A*   I715.  OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

Yede     Meyer,    Anna  Andries. 
Ravesteyn. 
Juny  3.  Jan  Killy,   Catlyntje  Margrietje. 

Bensing. 
Abraham  Russel,  Ma-  Annatje. 
ria  Russel. 
6.  Hendrik  Franse,  An-  Hendrikiis. 

na  Maria  Sipkens. 

(369) 

Juny  12.  D"""     Gualtherus    du  Isaac. 

Bois  &  Helena  Van 

Baal. 

15.  Christiaan    Hartman,  Elizabeth. 

Sara  Fransen. 

19.  Gerret  de  Graw,  Do-  Marytje. 

rathe  Hyer. 
Andries  Meyer,  Geer-  Cornelus. 

tje  Wessels. 
Samuel    Provoost,  Davidt. 

Maria  Spratt. 
26.  Samuel     De,    Celitje  Susanna. 

Salomons. 
Johannes  Meyer,  Sara  Sara. 

de  Freest. 
July  10.  Gilbert  Lottery,  Mar-  Gilbert. 

grietje   Van    der 

Klyf. 
Davidt  Conningham,  Anna  Maria, 

Eli  z  abeth  Else- 

warth. 
13.  Aarnout      Schermer-  Johannes. 

hoorn,  Maria  Beek- 

man. 

20.  Antje   W  y  b  r  an  t  s,  Antje. 

Obyt. 
Johannes    Pouwelse,  Magdalena. 
Antje  Huysman. 

Abraham  Van  Hoorn,  Davidt. 
Maria  Provoost. 
24.  Samuel  Bayard,  Mar-  Samuel, 

greta  van  Cortland. 
Wol|)hert   W  e  bber,  Isaac. 

Grietje  Stille. 
Eduard  Blagg,  Johan-  Johannah, 
na  Vickers.  16'^' gebor. 

July  31.  Theunis  Van  Pelt,  Samuel. 

Pllsje  Hendriks. 
Lodewyk  Post,  Rasje  Antje. 
Minne. 


GETUYGEN, 

Andries  Meyer,  Anna 
Cebra, 

Hans  Bergen,  Eva  Ben- 
sing. 

George  Farrenton,  Aaltje 
Pell. 

Sjoert  Olphertse,  Maria 
Sipkens. 

Isaac  de  Bois,   Isaac  de 

Peister,  Clevier  Teller 

&  Cornelia  Teller,  zyn 

htiys  v^ 
John  Johnson,  Elizabeth 

Lam,  s:  h:  vrouw. 
Harme    Bensing,    Aaltje 

Bensing. 
Wessel  Wessels,  Marretje 

Meyer. 
Davidt  Provoost,   Se"^, 

Elsje  Van  Hoorn. 
Jacob  Salomonse,   Eliza- 
beth De. 
Andries  Meyer,  J"'.,  Sara 

Van  Dam. 
John  Hicford  &  Jacobus 

R  o  s  e  V  e  1 1,    Geselina 

Brues. 
Corneltis  Kierstede,  Sara 

Elsewarth,  s.  h.  v. 

Wilhelmus    B  e  e  k  m  a  n, 
Metje  Beekm.,  s:  h^  v'. 

Jan   Visje,   Tryntje    V^y- 

brants. 
Barent  de   Freest,  Maria 

Ten  Yk,  h.  v.  van  Ju- 

rian  Witvelt. 
Willem    Provoost,    Aefje 

Exveen,  s:  h^:  v^ 
Stephanas  Van  Cortlant, 

Elizabeth  Cortlant. 
Hendrik  EUesse,  Jenneke 

Peers. 
Theophilus  Elsewarth, 

Sara  Verduyn,  s:  h':  v'. 
Hendrik  Van  Pelt,  Maria 

Fassfil. 
Casparus  Blank,   Catlyn- 
tje Van  Gelder. 


1 886.]        Records  of  the  Reforyned  Dutch  Church  in  New  York.  2^^ 


A'  1715. 
August  3. 


(370) 
Augustus.  3 


14. 


17- 


21. 


28. 


Septemb.  i. 


OUDERS.  KINDERS. 

Alexander  Fenix,  Gerrardiis. 

Grietje  Comferdt. 
Robbin  Cooker,  An-  R  o  b  e  r  d, 

na  Churcher,  J  u  n  y  4 

gebor. 

John   Thomas,   Mar-  Rachel 
retje  Langet.  Elizabeth 


Jan  Hibon,  Catharina  Cornelus. 

Sebering. 
Pieter  Bant,   Martha  Abraham. 

White. 
Jan  Lame&,tre,  Antje  Antje. 

Waldrom. 
Johannes    Van    Gel-  Aefje. 

der,  J'',   N  e  el  tj  e 

Onckelbag. 
Jacob  Ten  Yk,  Neel-  Johannes. 

tje  Herdenberg. 

Patrik  Magnight,  An-  Cornelia, 
na  Clopper. 


Clevier    Teller,   Cor-  Johannes. 

nelia  de  Peister. 
Jacobus  Rosevelt,  Johannes. 

Catharina  Harden- 

broek. 
William  Shekkerly,  Hendrikus. 

Debora  Van  Dyk 
Abraham    Provost,  Jacob. 

Jannetje  Me\>er. 
M  i  c  h  iel  Vaughton,  Elizabeth. 

Catharina  Donnel- 

sen. 
Johannes    Van   Nor-  Tobias. 

den,  Hendrika  Ten 

Yk. 
H  a  r  m  e  n    Bussing,  Eva. 

Saartje  Slover. 
Lammert  Van   Dyk,  Achias. 

Marretje  Hoog- 

lant. 
Anthony  Byvank,  Belitje. 

Teuntje  Laning. 

Philippus  T  e  r  n  e  u  r,  Elsje. 
Barber  Provoost. 


GETUYGEN. 

Gerrardtid  Comferd,  Ma- 
ria Walton. 

Charles  Churcher,  Abrah. 
Bradj  or,  Susanna 
Churcher. 

g  J  o  c  h  e  m    Roelofse,  en 

I      Jannetje,  s:  h:  vrouw, 

I      Alexander   Ver    Klin, 

Antje  Cros. 

Cornelus    Sebering,   Ael- 

tje,  syn  buys  vrouw. 
Johannes    Bant,   Nannie 

Laurier. 
Abraham    de     I>aneatre, 

Margrietje  Waldrom. 
Johannes  Van  G elder,  S', 
Rebecca  Bresiede. 

Coenraat   Ten   Yk,    Ca- 

tharina    Harden- 

berg. 
Cornells   Klopper,    S", 

Cornelia  Hoge,  in 

Hollant,   Catlyntje 

Stevens. 
Jacobus    Van     Cortlant, 

Maria  de  Peister. 
Adolphus    Hardenbroek, 

Sara      Hardenbroek, 

Wed«. 
Martiniis  Crigier,  Marica 

Smith. 
Johannes  Meyer,  Mary  tje 

Provoost. 
Leonard  de  Kleyn,  Maria 

Donnelson. 

William  Walton,  Maria 
Santfort,  s:  h^  v^ 

Jacob  Bennet  &  Neeltje, 

s:  hiiys  vrouw. 
Jacob   Van    Dyk,    Antje 

Rapalje. 

Coll.  David  Provoost, 
Belitje  Provoost,  syn 
dogter. 

Elias  Provoost,  Angenie- 
tje  Provoost. 


276  Fac-shnile  in  Handwriting  of  Col.  Beverley  Robinson.        [Oct., 


i^!?P7aaU>^Mc^^^,^^a^2?^Z3^ 


Facsimile  of  a  document  in  the  handwriting  of  Colonel  Beverley  Robinson,  and  signed 
by  himself  and  the  Justices  of  the  Peace  and  Overseers  of  the  Poor,  of  the  South  Pre- 
cinct of  Dutchess  County  (now  Putnam  County),  N.  Y.      Dated  1772. 

Malcolm  Morrison,  here  named,  married  a  daughter  of  Rev.  Elisha  Kent,  grandfather 
of  Chancellor  Kent.  These  signers  were  all  prominent  men  of  that  day,  albeit  some  of 
them  were  then  "  Tories." 

(^This  facsimile  will  appear  in  the  forthcoming  History  of  Putna7H  County, 
by  W.  S.  Pelletreau,  Esq.) 


i886.]       Records  of  the  First  and  Second  Presbyterian  Churches.         277 


RECORDS  OF  THE  FIRST  AND  SECOND  PRESBYTERIAN 
CHURCHES  IN  THE  CITY  OF  NEW  YORK.— Births  and 
Baptisms. 

(Continued  from  Vol.  XVII.,  p.  233,  of  The  Record.) 


1785. 


Cameron. 

M  ay- 

1='. 

MONTANYIE. 

May 

i^ 

Leonard. 

May 

8'\ 

May 

S**^. 

Richards. 

May- 

13* 

May 

13*'. 

May 

— . 

GiLLELAND. 

May 

28'^ 

May- 

28*. 

May 

— . 

May 

— . 

May 

— . 

Arden. 

May 

29*. 

(207) 

Hav. 

June 

4*. 

Newton. 

June 

5*^ 

Johnston. 

June 

5". 

Titus. 

June 

7^ 

'June 

7'^ 

Ely. 

June 

I6'^ 

McCready. 

June 

17*. 

Mitchell. 

June 

I7'^ 

Hicks. 

June 

^t- 

Allison. 

June 

26'". 

Gilchrist. 

July 

5^ 

KUMBELL. 

July 

15''- 

Donald,  Son  of  Donald  Cameron  and  Ann 
Walker,  his  wife,  born  March  8'^  1785. 

Elizabeth,  Dau'  of  John  Montanyie  &  Mary 
Blain  his  wife,  born  Oct'  13*,  1779. 

William  Steddiford,  Son  of  Jeoffry  Leonard  & 
Mary  Steddiford  his  wife,  born  April  29"*, 

1785. 
Affy,  their  Dau',  born  April  29'^  1785. 
Susannah,  Dau'  of  Smith  Richards  &  Rachel 

Low  his  wife,  born  Dec""  8'*",  1779. 
Lewis,  their  Son,  born  Feb'-"  22^^,  1782. 
Maria,  their  Dau',  born  April  I5'^  1784. 
Denias,  Dau'  of  James  Gilliland  &  Judith  Rose 

his  wife,  born  July  28*,  1776. 
Jane,  their  Dau',  born  June  16*,  1778. 
William,  their  Son,  born  Sept'  1 7"*,  1 780. 
Harriot,  their  Dau',  born  Sept'  I8'^  1782. 
Rebekah,  their  Dau',  born  Dec'  I2'^  1784. 
Mary,  Dau'  of  John  Arden  &  Judith  Horton 

his  wife,  born  April  3^^,  1785. 

Frederick    Jay,  Son    of  A.  Hawkes    Hay  & 

Martha  Smith  his  wife,  born  March  5"",  1 785. 
Margaret,   Dau'  of  Robert  Newton  &  Marg' 

Gordon  his  wife,  born  April  23"^,  1785. 
Margaret,  Dau'  of  James  Johnston  and  Eliz"' 

Brower  his  wife,  born  April  14"",  1785. 
Sarah,  Dau'  of  Joseph  Titus  &  Keziah  Smith 

his  wife,  born  May  29'^  1782. 
Harry,  their  Son,  born  Feb'^  7"',  1 784. 
Peter,  Son  of  Abraham  Ely  &  Catherine  Van 

Gezen  his  wife,  born  May  26'^  1785. 
Benjamin,  Son  of  James  McCready  and  Eliz*** 

Youngs  his  wife,  born  Dec'  25"^,  1784. 
Andrew,  son  of  Andrew  Mitchell  and  Marg' 

Stiles  his  wife,  born  May  I6'^  1785. 
Joseph,  Son  of  Dennis  Hicks  &  Ann  Banker 

his  wife,  born  June  17"',  1785. 
Margaret,   Dau'  of  Richard  Allison  &  Alniy 

Case  his  wife,  born  May  24"',  1785, 
Mary,  Dau'  of  Adam  Gilchrist  ju'  &  Hester 

Budd  his  wife,  born  May  19"',  1785. 
Fanny,  Dau'  of  William  Kumbell  and  Hester 

Caton  his  wife,  born  June  ii"",  1785. 


278         Records  of  the  First  and  Second  Presbyterian  Churches.        [Oct. 


Bruce. 

July 

15^ 

HOLROYD. 

July 

I?'*". 

Elliot. 

July 

17*. 

Ross. 

July 

17^ 

Montgomery.  July 

22-^ 

(208) 
Cole. 

July 

22''. 

July 

2  2^. 

Perrin, 

July 

24^ 

TOMKINS. 

July 

24'\ 

Kipp. 

July 

31='. 

Mode. 

July 

31='. 

Wicks. 

Aug. 

13''. 

Knox. 

Aug. 
Aug. 

13*. 

I4'\ 

Barker. 

Aug. 

14*. 

COWDRY. 

Aug. 

I4'^ 

McLean. 

Aug. 

21^'. 

Patten. 

Aug. 

21^'. 

Leonard. 

Aug. 

21='. 

Jenkins. 

Aug. 

21='. 

~    Blizard. 

Aug. 

21^'. 

Proudfoote. 

Aug. 

22-^. 

Egbert. 

Aug. 

28*. 

(209) 
Tant. 

Aug.^ 

28*, 

Lake. 

Aug. 

28'\ 

Robert  Lamuel,  Son  of  Robert  Bruce  &  Mary 
Langley  his  wife,  born  July  2*^,  1785. 

Elizabeth,  Dau'  of  Turpnie  Holroyd  &  Susan- 
nah Germond  his  wife,  born  June  23*^,  1785. 

Elizabeth,  Dau'  of  David  Elliot  &  Ann  Mc- 
Donald his  wife,  born  June  15'^  1785. 

Ann  Elizabeth,  Dau'  of  Hugh  Ross  and  Jane 
Osburn  his  wife,  born  June  24"",  1785. 
,  Mary,  Dau^  of  James  Montgomery  &  Jemima 
Carmer  his  wife,  born  June  17*   1782. 

Anna,  Dau'  of  Samuel  Cole  &  Mary  Beek- 
man  his  wife,  born  June  7'^  1781. 

Henry  Beekman,  their  Son,  born  Feb"^  22*^, 
1785. 

Abigail,  Dau""  of  John  Perrin  &  Catharine 
Varrian  his  wife,  born  June  i9'\  1785. 

John,  Son  of  Enos  Tomkins  and  Eliz"'  Crane 
his  wife,  born  June  30*'',  1785. 

Jane  Ann,  Dau'  of  Thomas  French  Kipp  & 
Agness  Pool  his  wife,  born  July  6th,  1785. 

Elizabeth,  Dau'  of  John  Mode  &  Mary  Hutchi- 
son his  wife,  born  March  29"",  1785. 

Nancy,  Dau""  of  Jesse  Wicks  and  Susannah 
Kelsy  his  wife,  born  Sept'  30''',  1781. 

Theodosia,  their  Dau"",  born  May  2^,  1784. 

Elizabeth  Ann,  Dau'  of  George  Knox  &  Cath- 
arine Paulding  his  wife,  born   March  26*, 

1785. 
Catharine,  Dau"  of  Silas  Barber  and  Catharine 

Cline  his  wife,  born  March  20"",  1784. 
Susannah  Stout,  Dau'  of  Benjamin  Cowdry  & 

Ann  his  wife,  born  July  11*   1785. 
Janet,  Dau'  of  Neil  McLean  &  Helen  Dunlap 

his  wife,  born  Aug'  4*,  1785. 
Mary,  Dau'  of  Edward  Patten   &   Mary  Mis- 
sever  his  wife,  born  July  16"',  1785. 
Hashball,  Dau'  of  Enoch  Leonard  &  Hashball 

Mathewson  his  wife,  born  June  6*,  1785. 
Susannah,  Dau'  of  James  Jenkins  &  Hannah 

Van  Gelder  his  wife,  born  Aug*  i",  1785. 
Elizabeth,    Dau'   of   Oliver    Blizard   &    Mary 

Evans  his  wife,  born  June  2^*,  1785. 
James,  Son  of  Laurence  Proudfoote  &  Marg' 

his  wife,  born  June  22^^,  1785. 
William,    Son   of  Benjamin    Egbert   &   Mary 

Arcsson  his  wife,  born. 

John,  Son  of  Thomas  Tant  &  Mary  Jenkins  his 

wife,  born  June  23**,  1785. 
James,  Son  of  James  Lake   &   Rachel   Mul- 

leneaux  his  wife,  born  July  29*,  1785. 


i886.]  Notes  and  Queries.  -  279 


NOTES   AND    QUERIES. 

CULLODEN. — The  Battle  of  Culloden  took  place  April  16,  1746. 
On  what  date  was  the  news  received  in  this  couutry,   at  what  port,  and  by  what 
vessel  ? 

Thanksgiving  sermons  were  preached  here  in  August.  s . 

Weeks. — Information  wanted  of  ancestry  of  one  Saul  Weeks,  a  truckman  in  New 
York  City  forty  years  ago.  •  william  medcalf. 

P.  O.  Box  3192,  New  York  City. 

Thompson — Cannone. — Any  information  of  Mary  Thompson,  who  was  born  May, 
1730,  married  Major  Duncan  Duffie,  or  her  mother,  Hannah  Cannone,  of  New  York. 

SOUTHOLD,  L.  I. — Any  information  of  Eben  Webb  and  May  Turrell,  his  wife  ;  and 
Richard  Hudson  and  Keturah  Goldsmith,  married  about  1740. 

Connecticut  Light  Horse. — Thirteen  companies  which  joined  Washington's 
army  at  New  York,  July,  1776;   who  were  any  of  the  company  officers?         r.  h.  g. 

Riley — Egg  Harbor. — Page  234  of  the  last  number  of  The  Record,  in  a  para- 
graph headed  "  Vannuxum,"  refers  to  an  emigration  of  Connecticut  people  to  Egg  Har- 
bor., N.  J.,  before  the  Revolution.  Could  the  writer  or  any  one  locate  this  "  Egg  Har- 
bor "  for  me,  or  suggest  any  means  of  getting  at  the  names  of  the  early  settlers  mentioned 
in  the  paragraph  referred  to.  The  only  reply  I  have  elicited  has  been  from  the  Town 
Clerk  of  Egg  Harbor  City,  who  thinks  the  old  records  may  be  in  Mount  Holly  or  New- 
ark. I  am  looking  up  one  John  Riley,  who,  before  the  Revolution, -went  to  Egg  Harbor 
from  a  Connecticut  River  town.  Yours  truly,  henry  g.  jesup. 

Chandler  Scientific  Departniettt.,  Dartmouth  College^  Hanover,  N.  H. 

Some  Curious  Epitaphs. — The  inclosed  epitaphs  I  copied  some  time  ago  for  their 
quaintness.  I  have  never  seen  them  in  print,  and  they  might  amuse,  perhaps  instruct, 
the  readers  of  The  Record. 

The  inscription  on  Colonel  Johannes  Snyder's  tombstone  brings  up  far-away  memories 
of  "  the  fine  old  English  gentleman  who  relieved  the  old  poor  at  his  gate." 

If  I  am  not  mistaken,  this  Colonel  Snyder  commanded,  with  Colonel  Pawling,  the 
handful  of  militia  who  luanted  to  resist  the  landing  of  the  English  troops  at  Kingston,  in 
1777  ;  was  at  Fort  Montgomery,  and  also  member  of  the  Provincial  Congress  in    1776. 

Is  there  not  a  good  deal  to  admire  in  the  "spunk"  of  the  young  Ancient  Weiser 
who  would  not  allow  carping  neighbors  to  trample  upon  his  grave  without  returning  a 
"  last  expiring  kick?"  JAMES  R.  GIBSON,  jr. 

Inscription  on  tombstone  of  Colonel  Johannes  Snyder,  in  the  old  Dutch  Church 
graveyard,  in  Kingston  ;  died  1794,  aged  seventy-four  years. 

In  every  walk  of  life  the  poor  man's  friend. 
His  country  Patriot,  sought  no  private  ends  : 
Intent  on  virtue,  as  the  chieftest  good, 
He  practised  piety  as  the  road  to  God. 

The  following  were  found  in  St.  Paul's  Churchyard,  New  York  City  : 

Capt.  J.\MES  Lacey,  died  April  14,  1796,  aged  41  yrs.  i  mo.  20  days. 

Tho'  Boreas  Blasts  &  boistrous  waves 

have  tossed  me  to  and  fro 
In  spight  of  both  you  plainly  see 

I  harbor  here  below. 
Where  safe  at  Anchor  though  I  ride 

with  many  of  our  Fleet, 
Yet  once  again  I  must  set  sail 

My  Admiral  Christ  to  meet. 


A 


28o  JVotes  on  Books.  [Oct., 

Jacob  Weiser  died  1785,  aged  40. 

Farewell,  vain  world,  I  know  enough  of  thee  ; 

And  now  I'm  careless  what  you  say  of  me. 
Your  smiles  I  court  not,  nor  your  frown  I  fear, 

My  cares  are  past,  my  head  lies  quiet  here. 
What  faults  you  saw  in  me  take  care  &  shun, 

And  look  at  home.    Enough  there's  to  be  done. 

Elizabeth,  wife  of  Nicholas  Kortright,  died  1789,  aged  46. 

"  The  Remains  that  lie  beneath  this  Tomb 

Once  had  Rachel's  face  and  Leah's  fruitful  Womb, 
Abigail's  prudence,  Sarah's  faithful  heart, 
Martha's  care  and  Mary's  better  part 
Her  Just  character." 

Lawrence. — Wanted,  a  copy  of  the  Genealogy  of  Descendants  of  Thomas  Lawrence, 
printed  about  1856.  Persons  having  a  copy  will  please  communicate  with  William  S, 
Pelletreau,  Haverstraw,  N.  Y. 

Notes  on  the  Lounsbury  Family,  by  William  S.  Pelletreau — Among  the  list 
of  the  few  inhabitants  of  Dutchess  County,  N.  Y.,  in  1723,  appears  the  name  of  Richard 
Lounsbury.  It  is  probable  that  he  was  the  father  of  Isaac  Lounsbury,  who  was  living  in 
the  "  South  Precinct  of  Dutchess  County  "  (now  Putnam  County)  in  1760.  On  a  blank 
leaf  of  an  old  copy  of  the  writmgs  of  George  Fox  is  this  record  of  the  births  of  the  cliil- 
dren  of  Isaac  Lounsbury  :  Sarah,  born  March  2,  1762  ;  Robert,  born  August  27,  1766; 
Isaac,  born  April  23,  1768;  John,  born  January  iS,  1770;  Samuel,  born  Februaiy  10, 
1772  ;  Thomas,  born  March  5,  1774;  Hannah,  born  January  23,  1776  ;  Deborah,  born 
April, iS,  1780  (married  Abm.  Hill)  ;   Joshua,  born  July  23,  1784  (died  1S33). 

It  is  probable  that  the  families  of  this  name  now  residing  in  this  State  are  descended 
from  these.  Joshua,  the  youngest  son,  married  Lydia,  daughter  of  Eliakim  Wardell. 
Their  children  were:  Isaac,  born  December  15,  1815  (he  was  the  owner  of  the  famous 
"  Red  Mills,"  near  Lake  Mahopac  and  Superior,  of  Carmel.  He  died  March  16,  1881); 
Rolaert  W. ,  born  November  29,  1817,  and  now  residing  in  Carmel,  Putnam  County, 
N.  Y. ;  Katharine,  wife  of  Amzi  L.  Dean;   John  D.;  Mary  J.,  and  Hannah. 

Young — Rogers. — Will  the  Rogers'  family  now  having  in  their  possession  the  large 
brass-bound  Bible  containing  early  records  of  Young  and  Rogers'  families  communicate 
that  fact  to  H.  Young,  Galveston,  Texas  ? 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS. 


The  Bartow^  Family  in  England.  ^By  the  Rev.  Evelyn  P.  Bartow,  A.M.  1886. 
8vo.     10  pp.  ' 

This  is  an  important  addition  to  the  Bartow  Genealogy  already  published,  carrying 
the  family  record  several  generations  further  back,  and  we  doubt  not  that  owners  of  that 
book  will  desire  to  procure  it  for  insertion  in  their  copies.  It  can  be  had  of  Rev.  Mr. 
Bartow,  Rahway,  N.  J.     Price,  fifty  cents.  h.  r.  s. 

Rachel  DuMont.  A  Brave  Little  Maid  of  the  Revolution.  A  true  story  of  the  burn- 
ing of  Kingston,  for  girls  and  boys,  and  older  people.  By  Mary  Westbrook  [Van 
Deusen].     Kingston,  N.  Y.,  1884.      i2mo.     68  pp. 

This  little  story  is  truly  as  interesting  to  the  "  older  people  "  as  to  the  younger,  since 
the  family  incidents  recorded  in  it  are  actual  facts,  historically  connected  with  tlie  burning 
of  Kingston.  The  people  mentioned  in  the  story  are  names  well  known  to  up-river  fam- 
ilies, and  it  was  written  as  an  affectionate  tribute  to  the  authoress'  grandfather,  Captain 
Tierck  Beekman,  a  gallant  and  lamented  soldier  of  the  Revolution.  He  was  an  original 
member  of  the  "  Society  of  the  Cincinnati"  (his  right  in  that  body  being  now  held  by  his 


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Notes  on  Books.  28 1 


grandson,  John  Westbrook,  Esq.,  of  Peekskill,  N.  Y.);  was  a  Free  Mason — a  man  of 
pronounced  character,  and  his  early  death,  in  1791,  was  felt  to  be  a  loss  to  the  whole  com- 
munity.    A  friend  hands  us  the  following  genealogical  note  concerning  him  : 

Johannes  Beek.man,  m.  20  Oct.,  1750,  Lydia  Van  Keuren,  whose  father  was  Capt. 
Tjerck  Van  Keuren,  from  whom  Tjerck  Beekman  derived  his  name,  and  had,  among 
others  :  I.  Capt.  TjEiKCK,  who  m.  Rachel  DuMont;  II.  Cornelius,  who  m.  Margretta 
Burhans,  dau.  of  Jacob  Burhans  &  Eliz.  Whittaker  ;  III.  JOHN,  who  m.  Annatjie  Pruyn, 
dau.  of  John  Pruyn  &  Catharine  Vanderpoel. 

Capt.  Tjerck  Beekman,  b.  30  Dec,  1754,  d.  25  Dec,  1791,  m.  Rachel  DuMont; 
She  was  the  dau.  of  John  DuMont  &  Gertrude  Ten  Broeck,  &  granddau.  of  Col.  Wessel 
Ten  Broeck.  Their  children  were  :  I.  John,  who  died  unmarried;  II.  Gertrug,  who 
m.  Judge  Charles  H.  Ruggles,  of  the  Court  of  Appeals  ;  III.  Sarah,  who  m.  Rev.  Dr. 
Cornelius  D.  Westbrook,  father  of  Judge  Theo.  R.  Westbrook,  and  of  "  Mary  West- 
brook  "  (Mrs.  J.  L.  Van  Deusen),  the  authoress  of  this  pleasant  little  book. 

In  Sylvester's  History  of  Ulster  County,  Rachel  DuMont  is  mentioned  as  the  "widow 
of  Capt.  Tjerck  Beekman,  and  as  a  woman  remarkable  for  her  intelligence  and  energy;  " 
she  died  at  the  age  of  93. 

Tjerck  Beekman's  great-great-grandmother,  through  Lydia  Van  Keuren,  was  the  first 
wife  of  Captain  Thomas  Chambers,  "  Lord  of  the  Manor  of  Foxhall,"  and  one  of  theyfrj/ 
settlers  of  Esopus  with  the  Van  Keurens.  Capt.  Chambers  married,  for  his  second 
wife,  the  widow  of  Rev.  Laurentius  Van  Gaasbeck,  second  pastor  of  the  old  Dutch 
church  of  Esopus  (Kingston). 

From  the  Appendix  to  this  story  we  take  the  following  facts  :  The  grandfather  of 
Rachel  DuMont,  Colonel  Wessel  Ten  Broeck,  erected  the  quaint  building  known  as  the  old 
Senate  House  in  Kingston,  N.  Y.,  more  than  two  hundred  years  ago.  One  hundred  years 
afterward,  the  first  Senate  of  the  State  of  New  York  held  its  sessions  there,  the  year  of 
the  adoption  of  the  First  Constitution,  1777.  Colonel  Abraham  Van  Gaasbeck,  a  son  of 
the  second  pastor  of  Esopus,  married  a  daughter  of  Colonel  Wessel  Ten  Broeck  (by  his  first 
marriage)  and  inherited,  through  his  wife  Sarah  Ten  Broeck  (the  aunt  of  Rachel  DuMont 
of  the  story),  the  Senate  House.  The  old  building  was  bequeathed  by  him  to  his  wife's 
niece,  Sarah  DuMont  (a  sister  of  Rachel  DuMont),  who  afterward  married  his  son  Peter 
(her  cousin),  a  member  of  the  First  Congress  of  the  United  States.  By  the  only  child  of 
this  marriage — Sarah  Van  Gaasbeck — this  antique  building,  of  Revolutionary  fame,  was 
given  to  the  grandchild  of  "  Little  Rachel,"  Charles  Ruggles  Westbrook,  of  Ogdensburg, 
N.  Y.,  who  conveyed  it  to  its  present  owner,  Frederic  Edward  Westbrook,  Esq.,  of 
New  York  City. 

We  may  further  add  that  the  slave-woman  "Isabel,"  who  figures  in  this  little  narra- 
tive, afterward  became,  in  the  full  maturity  of  her  womanhood,  the  world-famed  evangel- 
ist Sojourner  Truth  ;  and  was  for  many  years  a  beloved  inmate  of  the  family  of  "Little 
Rachel's"  brother,  John  DuMont,  Esq.,  of  Esopus.  H.  r.  s. 

Genealogical  History  and  Biographical  Sketches  of  the  Descendants  of 
John  Lee,  of  Agawam  (Ipswich),  Mass.  From  1634  to  1877.  Including  Notes 
on  Collateral  Branches. 

This  book  is  announced  as  teady  for  publication  by  William  Lee,  M.D.,  of  2,111 
Pennsylvania  Avenue,  Washington,  D.  C,  and  only  awaits  a  sufiicient  number  of  sub- 
scriptions to  defray  cost  of  publication.  The  descendants  of  John  Lee,  of  Hartford, 
afterward  of  Farmington,  Conn.,  published  their  records  in  1884.  Thomas  Lee,  of 
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of  genealogical  matter  published  in  1851.  Richard  Lee  settled  upon  the  James  River, 
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been  recorded  in  printed  form.  And  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  sufficient  encouragement  will 
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INDEX  TO  NAMES  IN  VOLUME  XYIL 


Note. — Through  an  error  of  the  printer  the  paging  of  No.  3  (July  No.)  began  with  197  instead  of  117. 


Aalsteyn,  45,   104,  228, 

270 
Aartse,  or  Aarts,  41,   104, 

108,    227,    231,    268, 

269,  271 
Abbot,  215 
Abeel,  267 
Abrams,  or  Abramse,  227, 

268 
Ackerman,  108 
Adams,  39 
Agard,  240 
,  Aldrom,  42 
Aldworth-EIbridge,  55 
V  Allen,  33,  36,  57,  232 
Allison,  277 
AUyn,  33 
Alsop,  220 
Alten,  225 
Alyea,  213 
Ament,  loi,  103 
Amory,  i,  23,  60,  242 
Anderson,  102,  271 
Andre,  98 

Andries,  43,  45,  225,  270 
Andriesse,  or  sen,  40,  46, 

46,  252,  254,  273 
Andros,  252 
Angus,  53 

Anthonidus,  104,  230 
Antony,-i07,  ^65 
Appel,    40,    41,    42,    103, 

106,  J73 
Appleton,  60 
Aramina,  53 
Arbuthnot,  13 
Arden,  233 
Areson,  51 
Aretse,  229 
Arianse,  46,  230 
Arnet,  54 
Arnold,  98,  109,  115,  216, 

217,  218,  246,  247 
Ash,  52 
Ashfield,  S3  , 
Aston,  17 
Astor,  57,  109,  III 
Atwood,  214 
Avery,  34 
Aymar,  59,  60 

Backenhove,  46 

Backet,  226 

Baesby,  230 

Bailey,   or   Baly,  59,  97, 

loi,  229 
Baion,  32 
Balads,  229 
Balch,  236,  238 
Baldwin,  276 
Banamacha,  228 
Bancroft,  109,  no 
Bancker,  or   Banker,   41, 

45,  90,  231,  277 
Banister,  112 
Bant,  loi,  103,  257,  269 
Barbour,  213,  278 
Barclay,  85 
Barentse,  104 
Barlow,  239 
Barnard,  10 
Barnes,  11,  237 
Barrett,  249 
Barsjow,  229 
Bartlett,  213,  217 
Bartholomew,  208 


Barton,  238 

Bartow,  238,  278,  280,  282 

Barwel!,  11 

Bass,  39 

Bassett,  4,  47 

Bayard,  39,  46,  57,  59,  88, 
102,  106,  III,  ii6,  227, 
2JI,  257,  271,  274 

Bean.  232 

Beardsey,  276 

Beasley,  260 

Beating,  107 

Beatty,  210 

Beaumont,  4 

Beck,  or  Beek,  105,  272 

Beekman,  40,  42,  43,  46, 
59,  88,  90,    104,    111, 

225,  226,    229,    253, 

268,  271,    272,    274, 
277,  278,  280,  281 

Beermans,  229 

Bedle,  221 

Bedlo   (Bedlow),  go,   92, 

105,  224,  270 
Belcher,  249 
Bell,  209,  236 
Bennet,  5,  46,  51,  54, 104, 

231.  275 
Benson, or  Bense.Bensen, 
Bensing,  43,    46,   47, 

52,  83,    85,   88,    loi, 
102,     103,    105,     107, 

226,  229,    230,    244, 

269,  271,  272,  274 
Bergen,  103,  274 
Berry,  or  Berrie,  Berrye, 

4,   35,   loi,  230,  232, 

258 
Berrien,  53 
Bevier,  262,  263,  264,  266, 

267 
Bicks,  230 
Bickers,  43,  loi 
Bill,  or  Bil,  43,  47,    272, 

273 
Bingham,  53 
Bishop,  236 
Bisset,  46 
Blackledge,  227 
Blackwell,    or    Blakwell, 

53,  loi,  229 
Blagg,  42,  105,  274 
Blague,  34 
Blain,  53,  277 
Blair,  52 

Blake,  232 

Blank,  41 

Blanshan,  266 

Blank,  47,  loi,  107,  108, 

233.  269,  274 
Blauvelt,  55,  108,  270 
Bleecker,  83,  98,  210 
B lizard,  278 
Blom,   42,   47,    102,    103, 

108,    225,    :i27,    171, 

272,  273 
Boardman,  112 
Bodine,  271 
Bodman,  in 
Bockenhove,  42,  107,  273 
Boeket,  226 
Boele,  227,  268,  273 
Bogardus,    45,    102,   103, 

225,     253,    254,     255, 

258,  269,  271 
Bogert,   42  43,    46,    55, 


104,    106,    210,    227, 

268 
Boke,  or  Boeke,   43,   47, 

102,  108,  229,  273 
Bolt,  225 
Bon,  40 
Bongran,    or     Bongram, 

40,  43,  107 
Boog,  105 
Bording,  47 
Borresh,  43 
Borsum,  268 
Bortz,   107 
Bos,  103 

Boscawen,  2,  3,  4,  7 
Bosch,    44,    46,    47,    100, 

104,  105,  106,  108, 
224,  230,  269,  270, 
272,  273 

Bossie,  103,  227 
Boulje,  104 
Boumans,  268 
Bourdieu,  no 
Bbuting,  227 
Bowen,  52 
Bowers,  32 
Bradhurst,  51 
Bradjor,  41,  43,  44,  221, 

226,    228,    229,    231, 

.275 
Brainer,  265 
Brant,  233 
Bras,  229,  230 
Bra  shier,  51 
Brat,  41,  42,  44,  225,  229, 

231,  268 
Bres,  227,  229 
Breese,  55 
Brestede,  41,  44,   45,  46, 

105,  224,  228,  269, 
270,  272,  27s 

Bret,  44 

Breuwerton,  272 

Brevoort,  43.  46,  47,  108, 
224,  225,  273 

Brewer,  112 

Brewenton,  107 

Brewster,  241 

Bries,  105,  227,  229 

firockett,  115,  240 

Brodhead,  256 

Brokhorst,  40 

Bronsall,  234 

Brown,  or  Browne, 
Brouwn,  19,  52,  58, 
102,  217,  235 

Brough,  232 

Brouwer,  or  Brower,  35, 
40,  42,  43,  44,  45,  46, 
102,  io8,  225,  226, 
230,  231,  273,  277 

Bruce,  278 

Brugh,  46 

Bruyls,  231 

Bruyn,  262,  264,  265,  267 

Bryan,  no 

Bryant,  56 

Buck.  238 

Budd,  277 

Buell,  34 

Bugby,  52 

Bulkeley,  57 

Bunce,  51 

Bui;ker,  8,  10 

Bunsen,  loi 

Bunsing,  224 


Burch,  103,  214 

Burdit,  233 

Buren,  109 

Kurge,  240 

Burgers,   or  Burger,   42, 

44,  102,  103,  106,  224, 

226,  227,  229.  269,  270 
Burhans,  257,  281 
Burke,  108 
Burnett,   236 
Burns,  53,  242 
Burroughs,  33 
Burt,  III 
Bushfield,  54 
Bushnell,  238 
Bussing,  103,  229,  275 
Butler,  28,  III,  236 
Buttre,  217 
Buyck,  in 
Buys,   40,    42,    103,   226, 

229,  230 
Byvank,  45,  102,  108,224, 

226,    228,    230,    268, 

272,  27s 


Caar,  44,  231 

Cabot,  233 

Callebost,  226 

Cameron,  53,  277 

Camfert  (see  Comfort) 

Cammel,  103 

Cane,  45 

Canon,  or   Cannon,    loi, 

108,  231,  268,  279 
Carbile,  271 
Care,  101,  224 
Carhart,  109 
Carmer,  278 
Carminow,  2,  4 
Carpenter,  112,  220,  235 
Carr,  39 
Carrol,  53 
Carstows,  225 
Carteret,  223 
Cary,  3,  4 
Case,  212,  277 
Castang,  46,  229 
Cation,  or  Caton,  233,  277 
Cebering,  41 
Cebra,  274 
Cerley,  106.  269 
Chaigneau,  108 
Chambers,  238,  243,  254, 

281 
Champion,  112 
Chandler,  33 
-Chapin,  32,  112 
Chapman,  32,  209 
Charmo,  271 
Charuaud,  223 
Chase,  115 
Chatfield,  236 
Chauncey,  81 
Cheesman,  232 
Chempcrnoun,  4 
Chetwood,  58 
Chevalier,  55 
Childs,  32,  III 
Chissel,  229 
Choules,  66 
Christiaanse,  272 
Christoffel,  44 
Chudleigh,  3 
Church,  245,  249 
Churchel,  228 


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Index  to  Names  in    Volume  XVII. 


Churcher,  275 

Cist,  60 

CI  a  as,    or  Claases  (see 

Classen) 
Claflin,  2S0.  282 
Clark,  10,  25,  51,  52,  60, 
loi,     114,    210,     233, 
234,  266 
Clarkson.  59,  11 1 
Classen,  or  Claase,  Claas, 
40,  46,  107,  230,  254 
^  Clement,  6,  103,  107 
Cleveland,  236 
Clifford,  4 
Cline,  278 

Clinton,  58,  91,  205,  256 
Cloppers,  or  Clopper,    44, 
47,  102,  108,  226,  230, 
27s 
Clouws,  42 
Clute,  60,  114 
Cochran.  52,  53 
Cock,  218 
Codwise,  52 
Coely,  227 
Coenradus,  105 
Coenratz,  103 
.   Coerte,  104,  225 
Coffin,  I,  18,    ig,    21,   98, 

242 
Coit,  33 
Cokever,  45,  46,  loi,  224, 

229 
Cole,  3 

Coleman,  7,  8 
Coljer,  273 
Colevelt,  42,  224,  269 
Collins,  32 
Columbus,   III 
Combe,  246 
Comfert,     or     Coniferdt, 

107,  268,  27s 
Conant,  112 
Concelje,  or  Conselje,  42, 

loi,  106,  268 
Congo,  104 
Coning,  102,  104,  107,  225, 

227,  231,  273 
Conyn,  40 
Cool,  214 
Cooly,  53 
Cook,  236 
Cooker,  275 
Cooper,  210,  211,  236 
Cornelus.or  Cornells, Cor- 
neliszen,  43,  44,  102, 
107,    226,    229,    254, 
258,  262,  269 
Cornink,  45 
Cornith,    236 
Corson,  112,  230 
Cosaac,  43 
Cosaar,  104,  105,  225,  230, 

272,  273 
Cosby,  84,  90 
Cosyn,   44,  107,  270,  273 
Cottin,  230 
Countes,  225 
Courtenay,  2 
Couwenhoven,     46,     224, 

227 
Cowdry,  278 
Cox,  271 
Craigie,  18 
Crandall,  99 
Crane,  53,  54,  277 
Cramer,  or  Creemer,  104, 

116 
Crawford,  70,  232 
Crigier  (see  Cruger) 
Crispel,  267 
Croesvelt,  225 
Crofoot,  97 
Cromlyn,  loi,  230 
Cros,  275 

Crosby,    82,   90,   92,    93. 
238 


Cruft,  115 

Cruger,  or  Creeger,  Cri- 
gier, Crugo,  42,  44,45, 
47,  228,  230,  231,  270, 

^     .273.  275 

Cruikshanks,  93 

Culver,  236 

Cuming,  210 

Cunningham,  274 

Cure,  270 

Currie,  52 

Curry,  or  Currie,  52,  53 

Curtis,  S3,  216 

Cuyler,  210,  270 

Dagere,  47 

Dalje,  41 

Dalsen,  273 

Daly,  40,    102,   104,  226, 

227,  273 
Damerel,  4 
Damour,  266 
Dana,  32,  56,  105 
Daniels,  226 
Darden,  116 
Darling,  114,  237 
Darwin,  57 
Dash,  59 
Davids,   or  Davidts,  43, 

45,  104,  106,  228,  232^ 
Davis,  54,  III,  115 
Davoe,  51 
Dawson,  88 
Day,  112 
Dayton,  236 
De,  41,  272,  274 
Dean,  iii,  232,  280 
Deas,  233 
De  Berg,  loi 
De  Bildt,  63 
De  Bois  (see  Du  Bois) 
De  Boog,  44,  105,  231 
De  Booys,  86  • 

Decker,  or  Dekker,  256, 

257 
Deems,  70 
Defoe,  III 
De  Forest,  or  De  Freest, 

40,  41,  46,  84,  87,  102, 

104,  106,     108,    226, 
269,  272,  274 

De   Graw,   41,    106,    115, 

233,  246,  268,  273,  274 

De  Groof,  40,  44,  45,  loi, 

105,  269,  270,  272  j 
De   Groot,  or  De  Groat, 

51,  230 
De  Grove,  232 
D'harietten,  227 
De  Hart,  40,  54,  102,  103, 

224,  229,  268 
De  Hooges,  83,  84 
De  Hutter,  252 
De  Kay,  46, 102,  107,  227, 

231,  271 
De  Kleyn,    45,    loi,    702, 

104,  105,  225,  271,  275 
Delafield,  or  De  La  Feld, 

59,  245-251 
De  Lamontagne,  465.227 
De  La  Motte,  109 
De  Lancey,  or  De  Lance, 

40,  41,  79,  85,  89,  104, 

106,  109,  III,  226 
De  Lange,  229 

De  Lanoy,  loi,  271 
Del  Doyt  (see  Dwight) 
Delva,  255,  258 
De  Meyer,  253,  257 
De  Mill,  or   DeMell,  42, 

108,  224,  227 
De  Mott,  25s 
Denison,  212 
Denton,  54 
Denyse,  62 
De  Peyster,  or  De  Peis- 

ter,  41,  43,  45,  59,  89, 


90,  103,  106,  224,  225, 
231,  274,  275 

De  Pue,  or  Depew,  De 
Puy,  76,  256,  265 

De  Riemer,  1^5,  -.104,  ^^25, 
1228 

Derouwe,  107 

De  Snyer,  229 

De  Truwe,  82 

De  Voor,  226 

De  Water,  43 

Dewey,  32 

De  Wendel,  or  De  Win- 
del,  loi,   231 

De  Wint,  41 

De  Witt,  or  De  Wit,  27, 
loi,  105,  232,  252, 
25s,  258,  267 

Dey,  242,  244 

Deyo,  243,  261,  262,  266, 
266 

Dickenson,  232,  235,  276 

Dickson,  243 

Didrix.  270 

Dill,  112 

Dimon,  236 

Diodati,  35 

Dirkje,  40 

Dircks,  or  Dircx,  Dirx,  41, 
■47,  103,  224,  227,  270 

Dissenton,  or  Dissington, 
4S,  224 

Dix,  log 

Dojon,  261 

Dongal,  S3,  232 

Dongan,  252 

Donnelson,  105,  275 

Dorhage,  107 

Dorr,  236 

Douw,  or  Douwe,  Dow, 
40,  41,  loi,  106,  225, 
269 

Drake,  56,  no,  240 

Dring,  217 

Drommey,  46 

Drowne,  57,  79,  205,  215, 
218 

Drummond,  35,  36,  37, 
no,  233,  23s 

Duane,  244 

Du  Bois,  59,  103,  256,  261, 
262,  263,  264,  266, 
267,  274 

Duche,  237 

Du  Doyt  (see  Dwight) 

Duffie,  279 

Dufoe,  107 

Du  Mont,  234,  278,  280 

Dunbar,  209 
Duncan,  54 

Dunlap,  87,  278 

Dunshee,  237 
Durfee,  214 
Diirlay,  52 
Durrell,  109 

Duyckmck,  or  Duyking, 
45,  46,  loi,  103,  no, 
in,  20D,  225,  226 

Duyon,  261 
Duzenbury,  54 
Dwight,  or  Dwite.Dwiggt, 
Dwyt,  Dwait,  Du 
Doyt,  Du  Doight, 
Dwit,  Doit,  Dwiton, 
De  Doito,  Del  Doyt, 
Dewhit,  Dwyte, 

Doit,  23-32,  109 
Dy,  or  Dye,  41,  106,  269 
Dyk,  225^  -i     •  '^ 
Dykman,  46,  58,  228,  230, 
231,  272 

Earl,  55 

Eaton,  gS 

Echt,  42,  104 

Ecker,  42 

Eckeson;  41,  106, 108,  225 


Edgar,  233 

Edsall,  35,  42 

Edward2,  32,  53,  236 

Egbert,  51,  278 

Egbertse,    or   Egbertsen, 
42,  225,  229,  255 

Eggleston,  94,  97 

Ekkeson,  43 

Eldred,  214 

Eldredge,  107 

Eliot,  60,  109,  278 

Ell,  228 

Ellem,  42 

Ellen,  226 

Elles,  100,  loi 

Ellesse,  41,  226,  274 

Ellis,  46 

Elmas,  37 

Elmendorf,  253,  263 

Elsewarth,  or  Elzewarth, 

Elsewart,  42,  43,  47, 

loi,    107,    108,    226, 

228,    229,    232,    270, 

.273.  274 

Elting,  264,  266,  267 

Elwell,  276 

Elwes,  233,  234 

Ely,  112,  278 

Emerson,  213 

Emmet,  271 

Epton,  III 

Erie,  270 

Ernest,  #51 

Estabrorfk,  280,  282 

Estrey,  45 

Evans.  229,  251,  278 

Evarts,  71,  115 
Everts,  35,  26S 

Ewer,  8 
Exveen,  43,  274 

Farbosch,  228 

Fanning,  236 

Farrenton,  274 

Fassul,  274 

Faster,  106 

Feller,  42 

Fenix,  42,    44,  107,    230, 

275 
Ferrie,  232 
Field,  32,  213 
Fielding,  44 
Fiele,  225,  227 
Filkins,  59 
FiHps,  or  Filipz,  47,   229, 

2C9 
Fiske,  281 
Fithian,  236 
Folger,  7,  8 
Fonda,  40 
Fonteyn,  224 
Ford,  60     ^^ 
Fordham,  236 
Forseur,  231 
Foster,  32,  218,  236 
Fowler,  81,  212,  236 
Fox,  280 
Franklin,  7 
Franse,       or       Fransen, 

France,   40,    41,   106, 

224,    227,    230,    231, 

273.  274 
Frazer,  53 

Freer,  or  Frere,  258,  264 
Freest,  103 
Freneau,  202 
F'rench,  114 
Fulton,  65 
Fyn,  42,  44 

Gaasbeck,  264 

Gaillard,  60 

Gaines,  86 

Gale,  54 

Garbrantse.or  Garbrants, 

42,  45,  225,  227,  228 
Gardimas,  103 


Index  to  Names  in   Volume  XVII. 


285 


Gardiner,  8,  9,  lo,  32,  33, 
^      34. ^57 
Garmo,  102 
Garret,  54 
Gasherle,  263,  265 
Gates,  go,  91 
Gayur,  i-ii 
Geddes,  52 
Celder,  273 
Gelston,  236 
\    Gemaar,  266,  267 
<    Genets,  or  Genetse,   108, 

270 
Georges,  7 
Gerand,  51 
Gerard,  88 
Germond,  278 
Gerritson,  253 
Gerry,  109 
Gibbs,  250 
Gibson,  236,  279 
Gilbert,  59 
Gilchrist,  278- 
Gilligham.  53 
Gilliland,  53,  278 
Gilmore,  212 
Gleig,  109 
Glover,  or  Gloever,    108, 

109,  232,  272 
Godfrey,  8 
Goederus,    40,    46,     105, 

269,  270 
Goelet,  41,  84,  104,  275 
Goff,  98 
Golow,  51 

Goldsmith,  241,  279 
Goodall,  236 
Goodmans,  37 
Gookin,  55 
Goodwyn,  29 
Gordon,  232,  278 
Gorringe,  76 
Gos,  42 
Gouverneur,  86,  loi,  107, 

loS,  228,  269 
Gowin,  226 
Graaf,  108 
Grace,  238 
Graham,  52 
Grant,  33,  47,  56,  57,  105, 

232,  242 
Graves,  13 
Gray  (see  Grey) 
Greaton,  205 
Greene,  33,  79,  113,  217 
Greenham,  or  Grienham, 

40,  loi,  104,  106,  230 
Greenleat,  6,  8 
Greenly,  19 
Gregory-.  54 
Grevenraad,  102,  230 
Grey,  33,  232 
Griffith,  243 
Grigier,  102 
Groen,  229 
Groot,  256 
Guda,  107 
Guimard,or  Gumaer,  258, 

266 
Gurtley,  in 

Haal  (see  Hall) 

Hadden,  211 

Haering,  or  Haring,  224, 

268 
Hagerman,  53 
Haines,   or   Haynes,   59, 

236 
Haldane,  60 
Haldron,  40,  226 
Hallam,  51 
Halleck,  56,  So 
Hallett,  249,  250 
Hall,    32,    35,    106,    231, 

234.  24  s 
Halstead,  no 
-"•alsey,  236 


Ham,  102,  228 
\Hamilton,    88,    no,    in, 

*■        235 

Hammond,  241 

Han,  or  Hans,  105,  229 

Hand,  62,  236 

Hannum,  55 

Hansen,   255 

Harcks,  224 

Hardenberg,  47,  105,  228, 
253.  263,  264,  265, 
270,  27s 

Harding,  105,  269 

Hardenbroeck,  or  Har- 
denbrook,  39,  44,  45, 
47,  loi,  104,  106,  in, 
228,  231,  273,  27s 

Harkins,  in 

Harmese,  46 

Harmon,  212 

Harper,  116 

Harrietton,  102 

Harrmgton,  213 

Harris,  216,  236 

Harssing,  or  Hassing,  44, 

46,  47,  103,  224,   227, 
228 

Hart,  230 
Hartman,  274 
Harvard,  70,  238 
Harvey,  28,  109 
Hasbrouck,  or  Hasbrook, 

60,     238,    258,    261- 

267 
Haswell,  211 
Hattem,  224  _ 
Hawkins,  255^,  260 
Hawks,  loS 
Hawthorne,  57 
Hawxhurst,  219 
Hay,  or   Hayes,  51,   52, 
*      237,  277 
Hayaar,  261 
Hazard,  35,  53,  54,  249 
Heard,   35 
Heburn,  51 
Hedges,  236 
Heermans,    45,   46,    225, 

231,  263,  269 
Hegeman,    43,    106,   230, 

269 

Hellaker,  44 
Helhake,  227 
Helm,  230 
Henderson,  54,  213 
Hendriks,  or  Hendrickse, 

Hendrix,     46,      107, 

228,  230,  254,  274 
Hennejon,    or     Henyon, 

Hcnejon,  Henion,  42, 

47,  loi,  227,  230,  268 
Henneson,  229 

Henry,  114 

Hermans,  or  Herman,  45, 

46 
Herres,  47,  271 
Herrick,  236 
Herring,  271 
Herringnian,  53 
Herrington,  212 
Herriot,  52 
Hertenberg  (see  Harden. 

bergh) 
Hervey,  234 
Hesler,  211 
Hewitt,  21 1 
Hewson,  or  Heuson,  208, 

209,  210 
Hey,  268 
Heyninge,  100 
Hibon,  41,   46,   103,  106, 

108,    229,    270,    271, 

275 
Hicford,  274 
Hickock,  93,  228 
Hicks,  2i8,  277 
Hildreth,  236 


Hill,  28,  280 

Hillebrants,  255 

Hilletje,   io6 

Hillery,  54 

Hinksman,  235 

Hitchcock,  211 

Hoagland  (see  Hoog- 
landt) 

Hoft",  256 

Hoffman,  86,  88,  242,  243, 
244,  251,  252,  264, 
267 

Hoge,  275 

Holgate,  85,  90,  237 

Holmes,  11,  18 

Holroyd,  278 

Hoist,  42,  103,  106,  107 

Holton,  114 

Homan,  226 

Home,  226 

Homer,  21 

Homes,  50,  114 

Hood,  14,  15,  41 

Hooglandt,  43,  45,  46, 
62,  85,  loi,  103,  108, 
112,  225,  226,  231, 
269,  271,  275 

Hoogteling,  47,  256,  257, 
264 

Hoorn,  or  Hooms,  46,  107 

Hoornbeck,  263,  265,  267 

Hopkins,  32 

Hopkinson,  202 

Hoppe,  231 

Hopper,  271 
Horsman,  53 
Horton,  277 
Hough,  80,  93,  94,  95,  96, 

99,  109,  214 
Houghton,  217 
Houwer,  42 

Houward,    or    Hoitwerd, 
Howard,  51,  61,  108, 
227 
Howell,  235,  236 
Hubbard,  H2 
Huckins,  240 
Hudson,  279 
Hull,  22 
Hulbert,  56 
Hulsapple,  209 
Hulst,  46,  109,  273 
Hunt,  32,  224 
Hunter,  12 
Huntington,  32 
Huntling,  236 
Hurd,  214 
Hurlbert,  60 
Hussey,  257 
Hutchmson,  278 
Hutsings,  io8 
Huyke,  44,  231 
Huysman,  104,  107,  273, 

274 
Hyer,  41,   47,    102,    103, 
104,    106,    225,    230, 
268,  270,  273,  274 

Ides,  or  Idesse,  102,  108, 

231 
Indcvoor,  229 
Inman,  14,  92 
Irving,  in,  241 
Ivers,  233 

Jacobs,  or  Jacobse,  43,  45, 
46,  83,  86,  loi,  105, 
107,  III,  226,  229, 
231,  236,  240 

James,  in 

Jans,  or  Janse,  Jansen, 
41,  42,  43,  45,  46,  47, 
102,  103,  104,  107, 
225,  226,  228,  230, 
233.  254.  255,  271 

Jay.  57.  59.  107,  in,  116 


J  eds,  or  Jeeds,  Jeets, 
46,  105,  271,  272 

Jeffers,  107,  268 

Jemmeson,  41,  224,  231 

Jenkins,  278 

Jennings,  236 

Jermain,  205,  206 

Jessup,  236,  279 

Jones,  53,  59,  86,  209, 
215,  236,  238 

Johnson,  or  Jonson,  3,  36, 
51,  52,  98,  loi,  103, 
107,  224,  232,  273,  274 

Johnston,  35,  36,  90,  277 

Jonker,  43 

Jons,  273 

Jooste,  46,  102 

Jordan,  205 

Joris,  43,  104,  225 

Judson,  43 

Kallbeck,  11 

Kane,  106 

Kastang,  229,  231 

Kelby,  259 

Kellogg,  115 

Kellond.  5 

Kelly,  213 

Kelsey,  278 

Kemble,  86 

Kemmel,  107 

Kendall,  235 

Kennale,  57 

Kennedy,  51,  52 

Kennyf,  229 

Kent,   32,    59,    115,    23s, 

276 
Kerfbyl,  84,  103,  226 
Kermer,  40,  108,  230,  272, 

273 
Ketaltas,  40,  45,  231 
Keussen,  109 
Keyser,  53 
Kibbey,  212,  213 
Kierse,  46 
Kierstede,    42,    45,    104, 

226,    228,    230,    254, 

256,    268,    269,    270, 

272,  274 
Kilby,  274 
Kilham,  97 
King,  25,  31,  32,   33,  51, 

58,  60,  115,  238 
Kinge,  115 
Kinny,  106 
Kip,  40,  41,  102,  104,  224, 

226,  227,    268,    269, 
278 

Kirk,  208 

Kirkbride,  238 

Kissam,  72 

Klaase,  43,  270 

Kleek,  105 

Kloppers,  47,  86,  230 

Knight,  107 

Knox,  278 

Kock,  46,  I02,  231 

KoUock,  54 

Koning,  44,  227 

Kook,  42 

Kool,   or   Koal,    44,  226, 

227.  229 
Koribyl  (see  Kerfbyl) 
Korse,  45 
Kortrighl,  255,  280 
Kouwenhoven,  102  - 
Koxnian,  105 
Kramer,  270 
Kromkheyt,  45,  102,  230, 

268,  269 
Krieger,  44,  236 
Krom,  42,  43,  230 
Kunibell,  277 
Kuyler,  45,  47,  226 
Kuyper,  227,  230 
Kwakenbos,  104 
Kwik,  4S 


286 


Index  to  Names  in   Volume  XVII. 


Labadie,  106 

Lacey,  279 

Lackey,  54 

Lae,  107 

Laidlie,  243,  244 

Lake,  54,  278 

Lakeman,  101,  270 

Lam  (see  Lamb) 

Lamb,  43,  46,  79,  81,  85, 

86,    go,    91,    92,    102, 

107,  22s,  273,  274 
Lambert,  52 
Lameaire,  275 
La  Meter,  253 
La  Montagne,4i,  104,  224, 

270,  271 
La  Mott,   109 
Langendyke,  258 
Langet,  275 
Langley,  278 
Lanmere,  268 
Laning,  40,  45,  108,  228 
Lanoy,  43,  224 
Lansing,  or  Lancing,  40, 

loi,  loS,  214 
Larmon,  212 
Larremore,  109 
Lash,  230 
Lashir,  51,  53,  233 
Lasler,  46 
Lasly,  227 
Lass,  47 
Lattmg,  80,  115 
La  Toynette,  262 
Lathrop,  32,  56 
Lauder,  208 
Laurence,  51,  278,  280 
Lau/ens,  13 
Laurier,  275 
Law,  45 
Layd,  42 
Lea,  loi 
Le  Klanc,  266 
Lebouestre,  25 
Le  Charme,  269 
Le  Compte,  233 
Lee,  41,  44,  114,  228,  281 
Leeds,  223 
LefFers  (see  Lefferts) 
Lelferts,    loS,    225,    226, 

231,  271 
Lefever,    262,    263,    264, 

266,  267 
Legran,  108,  231,  268 
Legraw,  loi 
Leraountes,  loi 
Leonard,  99,  277,  278 
Lerdith,  22b 
Leroux,   103,  224,  225 
Le  Koy,  Sa 
Le  beigneur,  25 
Levencn,  115 
Levendge,  115,  116 
Levesy,  233 
Lewis,  233 
Leyslaar,  or   Leysler,  47, 

loi,  103,  105 
Lierse,  45,  271 
Liewis,  or  JLieuwes,  43,  44, 

105,    lob,    224,   229, 

231,  272,  273 

Lincoln,  53  -•-_ 

Linzec,  14,  23 
Lmtner,  2^2 
Lippenar,  45,  102 
Lispenard,  85 
Livmgston,     57,    60,    65, 

tJj,  86,  249,  257,  268 
Lloyd,  36 

Longlellow,  237,  239 
Looniis,  32 

J^oots,  or  Lootz,  108,  269 
Lounsbury,  2B0 
Lottery,  274 
Louwe,  orLouw,  103,  105, 

269 
Lovelace,  252 


Low,  262,  263,  277 

Lowtet,  232 

Ludlow,  59,  236 

Ludlum,  51 

Lupton,  236 

Luykas,  or  Luykasse,  41, 

108,  226 
Luke,  54 
Lftsh,  43 
Lyman,  31,  268 
Lyons,  236,  271 
Lynen,  104 
Lynse,  108,  230,  273 
Lyslaar  (see  Leyslaer) 

Mabie,  235 
Machkralt,  43 
Macklin,  255,  257 
Macknight,  47,  108 
Macpheadris,  224 
Macy,  6 
Macy,  8,  10 
Maddix,  41,  231 
Macden,  46 
Magdnell,  106 
Magnight(see  McKnight) 
Malcolm,  90 
Maningault,  114 
McClam,  52 
McCleary,  233 
McClelland,  244 
McClintock,  214 
McLlure,  233 
McCready,  277 
McCuUen,  52 
McCurdy,  232 
McDonald,  52,  278 
McDougal,  205 
McKvers,  59 
McEwan,  208 
Mcl'aden,  52 
Mcintosh,  52 
McKay,  54 

McKnight,  or  Magnight, 
54,  102,  230,  271,  275 
McLean,  278 
McMasters,  52,  88 
McMurdo,  18 
McMurray,  54,  gi'i,  gi,  92 
McQuean,  or  MjQueen, 

54,  232 
McRea,  go 
McTyeire,  69 
Main,  228,  271 
Mairs,  235 
Man,  47 

Mandeviel,  loi,  105 
Manning,  214,  218 
Marens,  273 
Maries,  106 
Maruius,  36,  229 
Marius,  40 
Marke,  227 
Marshall,  or  Marchal,  87, 

108,     114,    226,    25s, 

269 
Marschalk,  54,  102 
Marseilles,  55,  237 
Marsiglia,  222,  223 
Martens,  226 
Marthel,  47 
Martin,  35,  53 
Mathewsoii,  278 
Mathiks,  107,  227 
Matthyssen,    or  Matthu- 

sen,  loi,  252,  254,  270 
Matthews,  16,  54,  210 
May,  110,  236 
Mayhew,  or  Mayhowe,  2, 

7,  10 
Maxwell,  59 
Meeker,  51 
Medcalf,  279 
Meeckem,  134 
Meeden,  230 
Meggatt,  234 
Mehoon,  41 


Meindertse,  254 

Melville,  235 

Melvine,  234 

Men,  102,  272 

Mencor,  52 

Menzees,  276 

Menthorne,  224 

Mercedes,  272 

Merkal,  259 

Merntt,  212 

Merynes,  226 

Mesier,  47,  59,    224,   227, 

272 
Meserol,  270 
Metcalf,  114 
Meyer,    41,   45,  86,   100, 

III,    228,    230,    274, 

275 
Michielse,  107,  228 
Miller,  54,    103,  112,  232, 

241,  269 
Milles,  260 
Minne,  274 
Missever,  278 
Misseroy,  54 
Mitchell,  218,  236,  277 
Mode,  278 
Moene,  or  Moens,  41,  47, 

60,  103,  224 
Mohone,  271 
Mol,  41,  46,  47,  231 
Molhern,  227 
Moncrief,  51 
Mons,  227 
Montagne,  or  Montanyie, 

41.   52,  53,   103,  104, 

268,  277 
Montague,  12,  106 
Montgomery,  53,  278 
Monting,  107,  227 
Montras,  268,  269 
Moore,  80 
Moreau,  217 
Morgan,  71 
Moody,  51 
Moore,  109 
Moorhead,  232 
Morehouse,  56 
Morison,  52,  232,  276 
Morris,  56,  87,  iii 
Mortier,  272 
Morton,  59 

Mott,  lOQ,  219,  220,  221 
Mouritz,or  Mourits,  Mou- 

ris,  47,  103,  224,  229, 

268 
Mulford,  34 
MuUeneaux,  54,  278 
Mulligan,  115 
Mundy,  11 
Munsell,  82,  83,  84 
Myer,  101,  102,   103,   104, 

105,    107,    225,     228, 

271 

Nagel,  orNagels,  J05,  272 
Narbury,  106,  229 
Narwoed,  or  Narrewood, 

43>  272 
Narthan,  44 
Neil,  51,  52 
Nelson,  36,  114 
Nessepat,  47,  271 
Newbold,  115 
Newton,  44,  250,  278 
Nieuwkerke,  or  Newkirk, 

228,  256 
Nichols,  S3,  252,  282 
Nivens,  2S0 
Noble,  213 
Noe,  54 
Noel,  35 
Northrup,  210 
North,  29 
Nott,  198,  210,  211 
Nottingham,  256,  265,  266 
Nuson,  261 


Obyt,  270 

O'Callaghan,  83 

Ocdon,  103 

O'Conor,  71 

Odell,  57,  58,  "S 

Ogden,  67,  86 

Oldes,  or  Olds,  29,  40,  47, 

los 
Olferts,    or    OlferU,    01- 

phertze,    40,  43,  loi, 

104 
Om,  106,  22s,  230,  274 
Onkelbag,  or  Oncklebag, 

104,    105,    224,    272, 

275 
Oosterhave,  40 
Oosterhout,  257,  238,  262, 

263,  265 
Oostrander,  108 
Oostrum,  226 
Osborne,  33,  278 
Otey,  113 
Outman,  102,  207 

Pagitt,  233        _  .  ^ 
Palding,  225   1^   ^ 

Parcell,  41,  141 

Paretre,  41 
Parkes,  232 
Parkhurst,  7 

Parsell,  141 

Parsons,  32,  85,  93,  iii, 

236 
Partridge,  32 
Patainia,  222 
Patka,  47 
Patley,  12 
Patoii,  235,  278 
Patterson,  or  Pattison,3S, 

51,  55,90 
Paulding,  278        — 
Pawling,  255,  279 
Payne,  56 
Peabody,  109 

Pearsall,  218,  220,  222     — 
Pearson,  83,  98,  237 
Pecher,  227 
Peck,    or    Peek,   44,  45, 

227,  231 
Peek  (see  Peck) 

Peers,  41,  46,  226,  227, 
229,  274 

Pels, or  Pelli40,  41,  43,  45, 
47,  103,  104,  108,  224, 
225,  227,  262,  269, 
270,  272,  273,  274 

Pelletreau,  236,  276,  278 

Penet,  99 

Perry,  11,  52,  246 

Peryn,  or  Perrin,  101,  278 

Peters,  51 

Pettinger,  51 

Philips,  or  Philipz,  32,  40, 
46;  55-  85,  103,  los 

Phoenix.  217 

Pierrepont,  58,  ill 

Pierson,   236 

Pieteis,orPieterse,  Peters, 
104,    108,    224,    227, 

228,  231,  273 
Pike,  33,  34,  55 
Pinkham,  8 
Pitcher,  93 
Play,  44 
Ploeg,  257 

Poe,  56 

Poillon,  116 

Pomeroy,  4 

Pool,  S3,  278 

Poore,  115 

Popham,  223 

Porter,  28.  219,  240 

Porterfield,  52 

Post,  40,  41,  42,  SI.  89, 
103,  107,  io8,  2.:6, 
228,  229,  236,  2.S7, 
269,  270,  272,  273,  -'  "4 


Index  to  Names  in    Volume  XVII. 


287 


Potman,  40,  117,  273 

Pouchot,  98 

Pouwelse,   43,   102,    104, 

107,  225,  229,  268, 
274 

Powell,  44,  219,  220,  221, 
268 

Praa,  272 

Preble,  80 

Prescott,  18,  2s8 

Preslar,  227 

Preyer,  46,  229 

Prideaux,  4,  5 

Prichard,  209 

Prime,  109,  197-208,  238 

Prior,  220 

Proctor,  115,  240 

Proudfoote,  278 

Provoost,  or  Prevoost,  42, 
43.  44.  46,  47.  87,  101, 
102,     103,     106,     107, 

108,  III,  225,  226, 
227,  231,  268,  271, 
272,  273,  274,  275 

Pruyn,  109,  m,  208-214, 

281 
Prys,  229 
Purdy,  109 
Purple,  80 
Putnam,  34 
Pylden-Drommond,  55 
Pyne,  5 

Quackenbos,  or  Quaken- 
bosch,    Quakkenbos, 

43,  47,  208,  225,  229, 
231,  232,  257,  271 

Quick,  orQuik,  107,  224, 

270 
Quincy,  55 

Rader,  213 
Raleigh,  233 
Raymond,  237 
Rayner,  54,  236  * 

Rapalje,  104,  230,  275 
Ratleff,  1 01 
Ravesteyn,   40,  102,  108, 

225,     226,    272,    273, 

274 
Read,  or  Reed,  log,  in 
Reeves,  236 
Relay,  52 
Relje,  107 
Remsen,  go 
Reners,  231 
Resow,  225 
Rethlif,  229 
Reyers,  or   Reyerse,  41, 

44,  106,  269 
Reynders,  103 
Reynedet,  273 
Reynolds,  32 

Rhee,  47,  loi,  106,  108 

Rhodes,  217 

Rich,  212 

Richard,  44,  229,  279 

Richerson,  105 

Ricord,  114 

Riemers,  42 

Riker,  82,  83,  84,  256 

Riley,  279 

Ringo,  43,  224,  273 

Risch,  227 

Rivers,  or  Riviers,  41,  46 

Robberts,    or    Robberds, 

Robert,  44,  105 
Rodgers,  116 
Robinson,  or  Robberson, 

29.  34,    45.    85,    102, 

211,  234,  271,  276 
.    .vk.oertson,  116,  244 
f    '.ochel,  42 
ochester,  210 
)elofse,    47,    102,    107, 

229,  254,  27s 
Rogers,  98,  236,  280 


Rol,  42 

Rollegom,  102,  108 

Romana,  222,  223 

Rombouts,  255 

Rome,  or  Romme,  Rom- 
men,  42,  43,  46,  lOI, 
104,  224,  228,  265, 
268,  270,  271,  273 

Romeyn,  40 

Roos,  47,  8s 

Roosa,  254,  255,  256,  258 

Rose,  or  Rosa,  42,  230, 
236,  277 

Roseboom,  41,  83,  227 

Rosevelt,  47,  59,  84,  loi, 
106,  109,  224,  230, 
231,  271,  274,  275 

Ross,  278 

Rowe,  14 

Ruggles,  281 

Ruhl,  265 

Rusje,  271 

Rutgers,  or  Ruthgers, 
Rutgerson,  45,  82-92, 
93,  loi,  103,  107,  228, 
230,  238,  262,  268 

Ruskm,  237,  239 

Russel,  106,  271,  274 

Rutan,  261 

Rutsen,  253,  256,  263    — - 

Ruttenber,  266 

Ruyten,  103 

Rykman,  40,  227 

Sage,  109 
Saintsbury,  113 
Salisbury,     55,     60,    229, 

263,  264 
Salomans,  or  Salomonse, 

41,  272,  274 
Salter,  no 
Saltonstall,  8,  33 
Saltus,  210,  211 
Sammens,  46,  225,  226 
Sanborne,  9 
Sanderson,  237 
Sanders,  47,  106 
Sands,  60 
Sanford,      or     Santford, 

Santfoort,     47,     225, 

228,  236,  275 
Sarley,  103 
Saville,  241 
Sayres,  236 
Schars,  40,  268 
Schaats,  230,  272 
Schellinx,  33 
Schenck,  114,  237 
Schepmoes,  253 
Schermerhorn,  40,  43,  51, 

III,  225,  274 
Schoonmaker,    254,    255, 

257,    262,     263,     265, 

267 
Schnabel,   or   Schnebele, 

Schnebly,  113 
Schoute,  108,  273 
Schumans,  107 
Schuyler,  40,  41,   44,   47, 

57,  60,  84,   105,    107, 

III,  255,  269,  272 
Schryver,  105 
Scott,   85,    86,    III,   236, 

242,  244 
Scribner,  60 
Scudder,  36,  202,  205 
Scurlock,  226 
Seabury,  238 
Seaman,  86,  219,  221,  222 
Sears,  no 

Sebring,  53,  108,  225,  275 
Sedgwick,  32 
Secly,  or  Seelye,  115,  237 
Segcrs,  108 
Sclover,  103 
Severance,  10 
Sewall,  55 


Seymour,  59,  236 

Seyn,  107 

Shahaan,  46,  loi,  230,  273 

Sharp,  114,  213 

Shaw,  115 

Sheaft',  54 

Sheaft,  or  Sheaffe,  18,  51 

Shekkerly,  275 

Sherry,  241 

Sherman,  214 

Sherwood,  54 

Sibley,  80 

Sickels,  46,  224 

Silvestre,  224,  273 

Sills,  51 

Simons,  no 

Sims,  270 

Sinclair,  loi,  in,  230 

Sippe,  40,  103,  106,   107, 

224 
Sipkens,  270,  274 
Sissem,  258 
Sjeckerly,  105 
Sjecre,  107 
Sjeklen,  277 

/Sjoerts,  or  Sjoerte,"47,"270 
Skidmore,  232 
Slafter,  in 
Slattbrooke,  29 
Slecht,    or    Sleght,    256, 

262,  263,  264 
Sling,  230 
Sloan,  233 
Slorer,  275 
Slott,  42,  107 
Slow,  44,  104,  226 
Sluys,  227 
Smedes,  264 
Smith,    or  Smits,   33,  41, 

42,  44,  45,  51,  54,  100, 

102,  107,  108,  no,  217, 

224,  226,  227,  229,  230, 
231,232,  233,234,249, 
260,  269,  270,  271,  275, 
277 

Sraithson,  52,  53     . 
Snaively,      or     Snaivele, 
Snavelyj  Snively,  113 
Sneden,  54 
Snyder,  279 
SoUcman,  271 
Somerly,  6 
Somerendyk,  45,  46,  53, 

225,  237,  269,  273 
Soy,  lOi 

Speed,  114 

Splinter,  45 

Sprath,  loi 

Spratt,  42,  161,  274 

Squires,  236 

Staats,  44,  45,  47, 105,  J07, 

108,  224,  228,  269, 270, 
272 

Staff,  268 
Stafford,  216,  217 
Stanborough,  236 
Stanton,  114 
Starbuck,  6 
Starr.  52 
Statham,  43,  46 
Statom,  42 
Steddiford,  277 
Steel,  105 
Stemels,  42 
Stephens,  112,  236 
Stevens,    5,   41,    47,   229, 

238.  275 
Stevenson,  or  Stefenson, 

109,  197,  224 
Stewart,  51,  232 
Steynbag,  107 

S tiles,  79, 80,  II 5, 2 1 5,  2 1 7, 

238,  240,  277 
Stille,  87,  104,  274 
Stoddard,  32 
Stone,  52,  217 
Storrs,  237,  240,  241 


Stout,  272,  273 
Stoutenburg,  40,  103,  107, 

224,  226.  227,  270 
Streddels,  43,  104,  231 
Street,  56 
Strong,  32,  S3,  212 
Struthers,  234,  235 
Stryker,  S5 
Stuart,  23,  90 
Stuyvesant,  85,  in 
Stymels,  103,  229,  270 
Sullivan,  60 
Sutherland,  52,  233 
Sybbald,  53 
Symmes,  or  Symese,  Sy- 

mense,  107,  272 
Swaan,  40,  228 
Swaine,  8 
Swart,  270 

Swartwout,  252,  257,  266 
Swatman,  213 
Swits,  or  Swit,  27,  43,  253, 

254.  256 

Talbot,  241 

Tallcott,  209 

Talmadge,  236 

Tant,  278 

Tantown,  44 

Tappan,  205-256 

Tattersill,  53 

Taylor,  56-112 

Teller,  103-106,  225,  229, 
254.  255.  274,  275 

Temple,  213 

ten  Berg,  272 

Ten  Brock,  229 

Ten  Broeck,  264,  281 

Ten  Eyck,  or  Ten  Yk,  41, 
42.  45.  46,  47,  loi. 
102,  103,  104,  105, 
107,  210,  211,  224, 
227,  228,  229,  256, 
268,  269,  270,  271, 
275 

T,  Yk,  231 

Terbell,  236 

Temeur,  275 

Teunis,  255,  258 

Thacher,  218  , 

Thebles,  44 

Thember,  8 

Theobles,  231 

Theunis,  331 

U'hienhove,  101,  102 

Thomas,  36,  57,  108,  227, 
233,  234.  247,  275 

Thomasse,  227 
..Thompson,  39,  53,  54,  279 

Thong,  89  I 

Thome,  46,  224  1 

Thurston,  238  1 

'J'iebkins,  82 

Tiebout,  52,  233,  273 

Tillinghast,  217 

I'illy,  224 

Timmer,  102,  228,  229, 
271 

Timnis,  234 

Titsoort,  258  ■ 

Titus,  ni,  218,  278 

I'odd,  239 

Toll,  in 

Tomkins,  276,  278 

Toombs,  238 

Topping,  236 

Torrey,  in 

Townend,  232 

Treat,  33 

Tredwell,  54 

1  reutnan,  224 

Trigg,  233 

Trindle,  212 

'I'ristam,  18 

Trommels,  254 

Tucker,  53-101 

Turck,  106 


Index  to  Names  in    Volume  XVII. 


Turk,   43,   44,    230,    269, 

270,  272 
Turner,  51,  58 
Turnier,  52 
Turrell,  279 
Tuttle,  56 
Tuytt,  27 
Twitner,  280 
Twere,  262 
Tyler,  209 

Ugbear,  4 
Underbill,  221 
Usher,  238 
Uytenbogert,  43,  227,  228 

Valentine,  89,  222 

Valk,  42 

Van  Aarnem,  108 

Van  Aken,  257 

Van  Alsteyn,  57 

Van  Antwerp,  55 

Van  Baal,  or  Van  Bael, 

83,  103,  274 
Van  Benschoten,  255 
Van  Bergen,  267 
Van  Beuren,  or  Van  Bu- 

ren,  Van  Buyren,  58, 

59,  105,  256,  271 
Van  Bommel.  43 
Van  Bossum,  or  Bossem, 

Bosson,       Borssum, 

41,  43,  103,   106,  107, 
229,  269,  273 

Van  Breestede,  82,  83 

Van  Broekle,  51 

Van  Brugh,  44,  102,  106, 

227,  231,  268 
Van  Cortlandt,  40,  43,  57, 

58,  88,  224,  225,  228, 

269,     271,    272,    274, 

275 
Van     Couwenhoven,   40, 

230 
Vandal,  232 
Van  Dam,  46,  47,  87,  102, 

226,  231,    268,    270, 
272,  274 

Van  Deurse,  or  Van  Deu- 
sen.    Van    Driessen, 

42.  43,  45-  46,  47,  53, 
83,  102,  103,  225,  226, 

227,  22S,    268,     270, 

271,  272,    273,     278, 
280 

Van  Dewort,  232 

Van  Dyk,  40,  41,  43,  44, 
45,  47,  103,  104,  105, 
226,  228,  230,  231, 
268,  269,  270,  27s  -.,5^ 

Van  Eckelen,  44 

Van  Engle,  106 

Van  Eps,  45 

Van  Etten,  258 

Van  Gaasbeek,  262,  264, 
281 

Van  Gelder,  40,  41,  46, 
102,    103,    104,    107, 

108,     .224-,-    ^(S,'"229,- 

268,  269,    270,     273', 

2'74,  27s,  27S 
Van  Giessen,  45,  277 
Van  Goese,  loi 
Van  Grootholdt,  252 
Van  Hartsberge,  41,  105, 

106,  '270 
Van  Heyninge,  41,  106 
Van  Hock,  105,  107 
Van  Hoese,  or  V.  Hoeser, 

IDS,  225 
Van  Hoorn,  orVan  Home, 

41,    46,     59,    87,   89, 


100,    102,    105,    108, 
225,  231,  272,  274 
Van  Houte,  227,  272 
Van  Imburg,  44,  227,  272 
Van  Kampen,  256 
Van   Keuren,    254,     256, 

269,  281 
Van  Laar,  43,  104,  231 
Van  Leuven,  255 
Van  Niewegen,  257 
Van  Niewkerk,  45 
Van  Nieuwenhuyse,  42 
Van     Noorstrant,   or    V. 
Nortrant,      V.     Nor- 
trand,  40,  47,  83,  103, 

107,  225,  273,  27s 
Van  Norde,  227 
Van  Oorden,»io2 

Van   Oort,   40,    42,    102, 

231 
Van  Oyen,  60,  114 
Van  Ranst,  228 
Van  Pelt,    42,    101,    271, 

274 
Van  Rensselaer;  83,  in, 

208,  209 
Van  Rollegom,  107 
Van  Rood,  45 
Van  Schaick,  43,  82,    87, 

88,  230 
Van  Sane,  226 
Van  Scboenderwoerdt,82, 

83 
Van  Schoonhoven,  224 
Van  Sent,  44 
Van  Stry,  273 
Van  Tienhove,  or  Thien- 

hove,  40.  103,  271,  272 
Van    Tilburg,    103,    268, 

271 
Van  Varik,  45,    loi,    104, 

225,  228 
Van  Vegte,  46,  106,  231 
Van  Velse,  102 
Van  Veurde,  47 
Van  Vlek,    41,   104,   224, 

228,  268,  269 
Van  Vore,  107 
Van  Voorhees,  54,  59 
Van  Voorn,  42 
Van  Vorst,   42,    45,  102, 

230,  269 
Van  Wagenen,  227,    237, 

262,    263,    264,    265, 

267 
Van  Wagener,   106 
Van  Wart,  or  Van  Waert,, 

46,  232 
Van  Winkel,  270 
Van  VVoert,  83,  231 
Van  Wyck,  S9,  89 
Van  t'Zant,    or  V.  Zandt, 

42,  102,  104,  208,  209, 

268,  271 
Vandewater,    or     V.   de 

Water,  43,45,101,102, 

108,  224,    226,    268, 
270,  273 

Van  De  Venter,  41 
Van  den  Berg,  or  V.  den 
^  .Burg,    40,     102,  107, 
•  ip8,  263,  269,  273 
Van  der  Beek,   105 
Van  der  Bill,  or  Vander- 
bilt,  59,   61,   77,    109, 
no,  255,  258 
Van  der  ClyfF,  or  V.    der 

Klyf,  44,  231,  274 
Van  der  Grist,  104 
Van  der  Heul,  44,  45,  47, 
I  102,  103,  224,  268 

I  Van  der  Heyden,  103 
j  Vanderhoefif,  53 


Van  der  Meer,   103 
Vanderpoel,  44,  103,  108, 

109,  281 
Van  der  Schure,  271 
Van  der  Spiegel,    45,   46, 

47,  226,  230,  231,  268, 

270,  271^272,  273 
Vandervliet,  62 
Vannuxem,  234,  279 
Varik,  47,  106 
Varrian,  278 
Vaughton,  105,  271,  275 
Veevas,  103 
Ver  Brakel,  226 
Ver  Duyn,  224,  231,  274 
Verkerk,  227 
Ver  Klin,  275 
Vermesua,  238 
Vermilyea,  58 
Vernoy,    or   Vernay,    25, 

254,255,  257,  267 
Verplank,    57,    100,    106, 

in 
Vickers,  42,  105,  274 
Viele,  47,  III 
Vinton,  216,  217 
Visjie,  274  ■ 
Visscher,  41,  209 
Vivyan,  2 
VoUeman,  106 
Vonk,  43,  106,  230 
Von  Ranke,  199 
Von  Schramm,  37 
Vos,  or  Vas,  45,  84,  89 
Vowles,  58 
Vredenberg,  41,  231,  255, 

270,  273 
Vrelandt,      or     Vrelant, 

Vreeland,      36,      59, 

105,  270,  272 
Vroom,  255 
Vrooman,  211 
Vryman,  225 

Waddington,  88 

Wadsworth,  in 

Wagstaft",  59 

Waldron,  or  Waldrom,  40, 
41,  44,  SI,  102,  105, 
224,  225,  227,  228, 
268,  269,  272,  273, 
275 

Walgraaf,  46 

Walker,  52,  277 

Wallace,  93,  96 

Waller,  S5 

Wallis,  53 

Walmsley,  260 

Walters,    41,    103,     105, 

106,  108,    224,    228, 
270,  275 

Ward,  58 

Wardell,  231,  269,  280 

Warner,  232 

Warren,  51 

Waters,  41,  104,  238 

Watkins,  53 

Watson,  51 

Webb,  279 

Webber,  or  \Vebbers,  47, 

88,    I04,'224,>225,'226, 

■255,  27i,>274 
Webster,  56 
Weed,  71 
Weeks,  114,  279 
Weiser,  277,  278 
Wei,  226 
Weld,   114 
Welles,  or  Wells,  60,  240, 

253 
Weme,  47,  231 
Wendall,  41,  102 
Wendel,  42 


Wennara,  40 

Wessels,  or  Wesselse,  40, 
41,    42,    44.    45,  47, 
101,    104,    213,    224, 
225,     228,    229,  269, 
272,  274 
Westbrook,  278,  280,  28 1 
Westphael,  257 
Wetmore,  32 
Weynat,  268 
Wheeler,  52     ""    '  " 
Whitaker,  or  Whittaker, 

253,    257,    262,    266, 

281 
White,   46,   59,  103,  107, 

112,     114,    233,    236, 

275 
Whitehead,  80 
Whiting,  32,  52 
Whitlock,  52,  233 
Whitney,   32 
Whitson,  219,  220 
Wichalt,  230 
Wick(s),  51,  236,  278 
Wide,  42 
Wilcocks,  S3 
Wilder,  in 
Willets,  221 
Willex,  40,  loi 
Wilkes,  225,  245 
Will,  loi 
Willard,  32,  99 
Willems,  or  Willemse,  33, 

40,  41,   42,   loi,   102, 

106,    108,    224,    225, 

227,  229,  268,  273 
Willets,    213,    220,    221, 

231 
Williams,  85,  99,  114,214, 

238 
Willis,  56,  218,  220 
Wilson,  22,  39,  54,  56,  57, 

78,  109,  in,  114,  238, 

242,  279,  281,  282 
Wiltman,  51 
Winne,  259       _^-^^ 
Winters,  102 
Winthrop,  in 
Witsell,  51 
Witvelt,  41-,  105,  107,  229, 

231,  271,  274 
Woeder,  225 
Woedert,  40 
Woertendyk,  43,  105,  226, 

227,  229,  231,  271 
Woertman,  42,  225,  226, 

22S 
Wold,  45 
Wood,  53,   112,  217,   228, 

240 
Woodhull,  53,  58,  114,  223 
Woodruff,  236 
Wool,  52,  233 
Woolsey,  31,  32,  236 
Wright,  54,  112,  zii,  212, 

235 
Wynants,  46,  229 
Wyhants,  228 
Wyhantz,  274 
Wynkoop,  102,   256,   265, 

268 
Wytton,  42 


You  mans,  51 
Young,  238,  277,  280 
Yverey,  42 


Zandt,  42 
Zenger,  87 
Zicks,  228 
Zuylandt,  266 


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No.  I, 


THE   NEW  YORK 


Genealogical  and  Biographical 

Record. 


Devoted    to    the    Interests    of   American 
Genealogy  and  Biography. 


ISSUED       QUARTERLY. 


January,     1886. 


PUBLISHED    BY   THE   SOCIETY, 

MoTT    Memorial    Hall,    No.    64    Madison    Avenue, 

New   York   City. 


The   New  York   Genealogical  and    Biographical   Record. 

Publication    Committee : 

SAMUEL   S.  PURPLE.  CHARLES    B.   MOORE.  JOHN    J.   LATTING. 

Gen.  JAS.  GRANT  WILSON.  HENRY    R.    STILES. 


JANUARY,    1886.— CONTENTS. 


PACK 


1.  Admiral  Sir  Isaac   Coffin,  Bart.     By  Hon.  Thomas  Coffin  Amory, 

with  Portrait,      .  ...........        T 

2.  Traces  of  the  Dwight   Family    in    Early    English    History.     By 

Benjamin  W.  Dwight,  D.D., 23 

3.  The  Lordship  and  Manor  of   Gardiner's    Island.     By   John  Lyon 

Gardiner,  Esq.,     .  ..........     32 

4.  Some  Descendants  of  Robert  and  Anne  Drummond,  of  New  York. 

By  William  Hall,  ...         - 35 

5.  Genealogical  History.     By  Dr.  Von  H.  Schramm,      .        .         .        .37 

6.  Ancient  New  York  Tombstones.     By  Gen.  Jas.  Grant  Wilson,        .     39 

7.  Records  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  in  the  City  of  New  York 

— Baptisms  (Continued),  ........  .40 

8.  The  Arms   and    Seals  of  New   York  :  A    Defence.     By    Henry  A. 

Homes, .48 

g.     Records  of  the  First  and  Second  Presbyterian  Churches  in  the 

City  of  New  York — Births  and  Baptisms  (Continued),     .         .         .     50 

10.  Notes  and  Queries.  —  Blauvelt  and  Van  Antwerp  Families — Vandalism — 

Pike  Family  Genealogy — East  Haddam  Folks'  Record — Record  Index — 
Hannum  Genealogy — Marseilles  Arms,  .....  -55 

11.  Book    Notices — Family  Memorials,  by  Prof.   Edward  E.   Salisbury,  55 — 

Personal  Memoirs  of  Gen.  U.  S.  Grant,  56 — Bryant  and  his  Friends,  by 
Gen.  Jas.  Grant  Wilson,  56 — Century  Magazine,  56 — Colonial  New  York  : 
Philip  Schuyler  and  his  Family,  by  George  W.  Schuyler,  57 — Charles  Dar- 
win, by  Grant  Allen,  ..........      57 

12.  Obituary — Grant,  57 — Odell,  57 — Pierrepont,  58 — Van  Buren,  .         .     58 

13.  Donations  to  the  Library,  60 


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The   New  York   Genealogical  and  Biographical   Record. 


Publicatio7i    Conwiittee . 


Gen.   JAS.  GRANT  WILSON,  Ex-officio.         Dr.   HENRY    R.    STILES. 
Dr.   SAMUEL   S.  PURPLE.  Mr.   CHARLES    B.   MOORE. 


APRIL,    1886.— CONTENTS. 

PAGE 

1.  Cornelius  and  William    H.  Vanderbilt.     By  William  H.    Bogart, 

with  two  Portraits,     ...........      61 

2.  Address  of  President  W^ilson,   witli  Portrait, 78 

3.  The   Rutgers   Family  of  New  York.     By   Ernest  H.  Crosby,  with 

Portrait  of  Colonel  Rutgers,        .........      82 

4.  Memorial  Sketch  of  Franklin  B.   Hough,  M.D.     By  Dr.  Henry  R. 

Stiles,  with  Portrait,         ..........     93 

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7.  Notes  on  Books. — Records  of  the  Descendants  of  Nathaniel  Ely,  compiled 

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Stephen,  112 — Memoir  of  Rt.  Rev.  James  Hervey  Otey,  D.D.,  LL.D., 
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8.  Donations  to  the  Society, 114 

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Notes  and  a  Genealogy  by  William   Pa  ITKKSON.     New  York,  1865.     4to.     51.50. 
GENEALOGY    OF    THE    MACY    FAMILY.     Albany,  1868.     .Sheets.     8vo.     $6.00. 
WINSLOW    MEMORIAL,  Vol.  I.,  1877.     New  York,  1877.     8vo.     $5.00. 
WATSON     FAMILY    GENEALOGY.     New  York.  1865.     8vo.     $1.50. 
STILES    FAMILY    GENEALOGY.     New  York,  1839.     8vo.     75  cents. 
GENEALOGY    OF    THE    ELIOT    FAMILY.     New  Haven,  1854.     In  sheets.     Svo.     $2.50. 


Any  of  the  books  above-mentioned  will  be  mailed  free  to  any  j)lace  in  the  United 
States  or  Canada,  on  receipt  of  the  price,  by  Dr.   GEORGE  H.  liVTLER, 

Treasurer  of  the 

New  York  Genealogical  and  Biographical  Society,  64  Madison  Ave.,  New  York. 


THE    NEW    YORK 
Genealogical  and  Biographical  Society. 


This  Society,  which  was  organized  and  incorporated  seventeen  years  ago,  has  for  its 
chief  objects  : 

First — To  collect  and  print,  in  an  enduring  form,  the  scattered  records  of  the  early 
inhabitants  of  the  Colony  of  New  Netherland  and  the  Province  and  State  of  New  York, 
and  to  preserve  the  pedigrees  of  their  families,  also,  as  far  as  practicable,  those  of  other 
families.  This  the  Society  is  successfully  accomplishing,  through  the  medium  of  a  peri- 
odical known  as  the  "New  York  Genealogical  and  Biographical  Record,  devoted 
to  the  interests  of  American  Genealogy  and  Biography,"  edited  by  competent  members  of 
the  Society,  and  now  in  the  seventeenth  year  of  its  publication.  The  sixteen  bound 
volumes  of  the  Record  contain  many  of  the  ancient  records  of  the  Dutch  and  other 
New  York  Churches,  which  are  invaluable  to  those  interested  in  their  family  history. 

Second — To  add  to  its  large  and  valuable  library,  which  already  contains  many  works 
that  are  rare  and  difficult  to  obtain — American  biography,  family  genealogies,  town, 
county,  and  other  local  histories  ;  and  various  volumes  relating  to  the  above  and  kindred 
subjects. 

Third — With  a  view  to  increase  the  usefulness  of  the  Society,  and  for  the  purpose 
of  enabling  it  to  add  to  its  fund  for  the  erection  of  a  fire-proof  building  to  contain  the 
Society's  archives  and  library,  the  undersigned  cordially  request  that,  should  the  aims 
and  objects  of  the  Society  commend  themselves  to  your  judgment,  you  will  become  a 
member  of  the  same.  For  admission  the  candidate  must  be  nominated  by  a  member,  and 
be  approved  and  voted  in  at  a  regular  meeting.  The  initiation  fee  is  $5.00  and  an 
annual  payment  of  the  like  sum.  The  payment  of  $50.00  constitutes  a  Life  Member. 
Terms  of  subscription  for  the  Record,  $2.00  per  annum  in  advance.  Subscriptions, 
which  are  solicited,  may  be  sent  to  Dr.  George  H.  Butler,  Treasurer,  64  Madison 
Avenue,  New  York.  Meetings  are  held  on  the  second  Friday  evening  of  each  month 
(excepting  July,  August,  and  September)  at  the  Society's  Hall,  64  Madison  Avenue,  when 
papers  are  read  and  addresses  delivered  on  subjects  for  the  most  part,  but  not  exclusively, 
relating  to  the  State  of  New  York.  Meetings  are  also  held  on  the  fourth  Friday  evening 
of  each  month,  of  a  business  and  conversational  character. 


OFFICERS  OF  THE  SOCIETY  FOR  THE  YEAR  1886. 

Gen.  JAS.  GRANT  WILSON. 
First  Vice-President,  Second  Vice-President, 

Dr.  ELLSWORTH  ELIOT.  Dr.  HENRY   R.  STILES. 

CorresJ>ojzding  Secretary,  Recording  Secretary, 

Mr.  RUFUS   king.  Mr.  OLIVER  E.  COLES. 

Librarian,  Treasurer. 

Mr.  SAMUEL    BURHANS,  Jr.  Dr.  GEORGE   H.  BUTLER. 

Registrar  of  Pedigrees, 
Mr.  THOMAS     G.  EVANS.' 
£j:ec»tive  Committee, 
Dr.  ELLSWORTH    ELIOT,  Mr.  GERRIT   H.  VAN  WAGENEN, 

Mr.  THOMAS   G.  EVANS,  .     Mr.  FREDERICK   D.  THOMPSON. 

Committee  on  Biograj>hical  Bibliography, 
Mr.  CHARLES   B.  MOORE,  Mr.  THOMAS    H.  EDSALL. 

Buiidins  Fund  Comtnittee, 
Mr.  CORNELIUS   VANDERBILT,  Hon.  THEODORE   ROOSEVELT, 

Hon.  WM.  WALDORF   ASTOR,  Mr.   EDMUND   A.  HURRY, 

Mr.  AMORY   S.  CARHART,  Mr.  JOHN    V.   L.  PRUYN. 

Trustees, 
Term  Expires,  1887.  Term  Expires,  1888.  Term  Expires,  1889. 

Mr.  JOHN   J.  LATTING,  Mr.  EDWARD    F.  DeLANCEY,  Mk.  RUFUS    KING, 

Mr.  CHARLES   B.  MOORE,       Dr.  SAMUEL  S.   PURPLE,  Mr.   H.  T.  DROWNE, 

Mr.  THOMAS  H.  EDSALL,        Gen.  JAS.  GRANT  WILSON,  Dr.  HENRY   R.  STILES. 


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Vol.  XVII. 


J 


No. 


THE   NEW  YORK 


Genealogical  and  Biographical 


Record 


Devoted    to    the    Interests    of   American 
Genealogy  and  Biography. 


ISSUED       quarterly 


July,     1886. 


PUBLISHED    BY   THE   SOCIETY, 

MoTT    Memorial    Hall,    No.    64    Madison    Avenue, 

New  York   City. 


The   New  York   Genealogical  and   Biographical   Record. 


Publication    Committee : 

Gen.  JAS.  GRANT  WILSON,  Ex-offido.         Dr.   HENRY    R.    STILES. 
Dr.   SAMUEL   S.  PURPLE.  Mr.   CHARLES    B.   MOORE. 


JULY,    1886.— CONTENTS. 

PAGE 

1.  Four  Primes.      By  Edward  Iren.^us  Stevenson,  with  Portrait    .         .   197 

2.  Pruyn  Family — American  Branch.     By  John  V.  L.  Pruyn,  Jr.     .        208 

3.  Henry  Thayer  Drowne.     By  Henry  R.  Stiles,  M.D.,  with  Portrait.      215 

4.  Records  of  the  Society  of  Friends  of  Westbury,  L.  I.  (Continued),  218 

5.  Biographical  Sketch  of  Gerlando  Marsiglia.         ....       222 

6.  Records  of  the  Reformed  Dutch  Church  in  the  City  of  New  York 

(Continued).       ............    224 

7.  Records  of  the  First  and  Second  Presbyterian  Churches  in  the 

City  of  New  York  (Continued) 232 

8.  Notes     and     Queries. — Pedigree    of    Elwes    Family — Vannuxum — The 

Drummonds,  of  Preston  Pans,  Scotland — Natural  Heirship — An  Old 
Time  Real  Estate  Agent — Southampton,  L.  I.  —  Balch — Cleaveland — Dorr 
— Unclaimed  Fortunes  in  Holland — May,  Lyons,  Butler — Raymond — 
Somerdyke — Seelye — Philip  Livingston — Marseilles.  ....    233 

9.  Books  Donated  to  the  Society 237 

10.  Book  Notices. — The  Centennial  History  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church 

in  the  Diocese  of  New  York,  by  Gen.  J.  G.  Wilson,  238 — Life  and  Letters 
of  Joel  Barlow,  by  Chas.  B.  Todd,  239 — Life  of  Henry  W.  Longfellow,  by 
Samuel  Longfellow,  239 — Prreterita,  by  John  Ruskin,  239 — The  History 
of  Kings  County,  N.  Y.,  by  H.  R.  Stiles,  240 — The  Storrs  Genealogy,  by 
Chas.  Storrs,  240— Life  of  Admiral  Sir  Isaac  Coftin,  by  Thos.  C.  Amory, 
242 — Personal  Memoirs  of  U.  S.  Grant,  242 — The  Complete  Works  of 
Robert  Burns,  by  Hunter  and  Gebbie.  .......    242 

11.  Obituary. — Mrs.    Lavinia  A.  Dey,  242 — Right  Rev.  Charles  F.  Robertson, 

S.  T.  D 244 


NOTICE. 

While  the  Publication  Committee  aim  to  admit  into  the 
Record  such  Genealogical,  Biographical,  and  Historical 
matter,  only,  as  may  be  relied  on  for  accuracy  and  authen- 
ticity, it  is  to  be  understood  that  neither  the  Society  or 
Committee  are  responsible  for  misstatements  of  facts  (if 
any),  or  for  the  opinions  or  observations  contained  or 
expressed  in  articles  under  the  names,  or  initials,  of 
contributors. 

All  communications  intended  for  the  Record  should  be 
addressed  to  "The  Publication  Committee  of  the  Record," 
at  the  rooms  of  the  N.  Y.  Genealogical  and  Biographical 
Society,  No.  64  Madison  Avenue,  New  York. 

The  Record  will  be  found  on  sale  at  the  rooms  of  the 
Society  which  are  open  on  Tuesda}'  and  Friday  afternoons :  at 
Brentano  Brothers,  5  Union  Square,  W.;  and  at  Nash  and  Pierce's, 
80  Nassau  Street,  New  York.  The  Society  has  a  few  complete 
sets  on  sale.  Price  for  the  16  vols.,  well  bound  in  cloth,  $36.50. 
Subscription  payable  in  advance,  Two  Dollars  per  annum  ;  Single 
Numbers    Sixty    Cents    each. 

Payments  for  subscriptions,  and  annual  dues  of  Members  of  the 
Society,  should  be  sent  to  Dr.  George  H.  Butler,  Treasurer, 
No.  64  Madison  Avenue,  New  York  City. 


THE  NEW-ENGLAND  HISTORICAL  AND  GENEALOGICAL  REGISTER 

Contains  a  variety  of  valuable  and  interesting  matter  concerning  the  History 
Antiquities,  Genealogy  and  Biography  of  America.  It  was  commenced  in  i  847 
and  IS  the  oldest  historical  periodical  now  published  in  this  country.  It  is  issued 
quarterly  (each  number  containing  at  least  96  octavo  pages,  with  a  portrait  on 
steel)  by  the  Neu-England  Historic  Genealogical  Societv,  18  Somerset  Street 
boston,  Mass. 

Price,  $3  per  anmim  in  advance.      Single  numbers,  75  cfs.  each. 

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people  of  ^ew  England,  their  manners,  customs  and  mode  of  living  in  bygone  days." 

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iinghsh  families  of  the  seventeenth  century,  concerning  whom  these  volumes  contain  a 
vast  amount  of  information  not  to  be  found  elsewhere.  There  are  no  books  in  my  library 
tnat  1  would  not  sooner  part  with  than  my  set  of  the  Register." 

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INDEX    TO    AMERICAN    PEDIGREES-DURRIE.     Albany       6  vo      t^ 

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Treasurer  of  the 

Kew  York  Genealogical  and  Biographical  Society,  64  Madison  Ave.,  New  York. 


THE    NEW    YORK 
Genealogical  and  Biographical  Society. 


Tliis  Society,  which  was  organized  and  incorporated  seventeen  years  ago,  has  for  its 
chief  objects  : 

f  First — To^collect  and  print,  in  an  enduring  form,  the  scattered  records  of  the  early 
inhabitants  of  the  Colony  of  New  Netherland  and  the  Province  and  State  of  New  York, 
and  to  preserve  the  pedigrees  of  their  families,  also,  as  far  as  practicable,  those  of  other 
families.  This  the  Society  is  successfully  accomplishing,  through  the  medium  of  a  peri- 
odical known  as  the  "New  York  Genealogical  and  Biographical  Record,  devoted 
to  the  interests  of  American  Genealogy  and  Biography,"  edited  by  competent  members  of 
the  Society,  and  now  in  the  seventeenth  year  of  its  publication.  The  sixteen  bound 
volumes  of  the  Record  contain  many  of  the  ancient  records  of  the  Dutch  and  other 
New  York  Churches,  which  are  invaluable  to  those  interested  in  their  family  history. 

Second — To  add  to  its  large  and  valuable  library,  which  already  contains  many  works 
that  are  rare  and  difficult  to  obtain — American  biography,  family  genealogies,  town, 
county,  and  other  local  histories  ;  and  various  volumes  relating  to  the  above  and  kindred 
subjects. 

Third — With  a  view  to  increase  the  usefulness  of  the  Society,  and  for  the  purpose 
of  enabling  it  to  add  to  its  fund  for  the  erection  of  a  fire-proof  building  to  contain  the 
Society's  archives  and  library,  the  undersigned  cordially  request  that,  should  the  aims 
and  objects  of  the  Society  commend  themselves  to  your  judgment,  you  will  become  a 
member  of  the  same.  For  admission  the  candidate  must  be  nominated  by  a  member,  and 
be  approved  and  voted  in  at  a  regular  meeting.  The  initiation  fee  is  $5.00  and  an 
annual  payment  of  the  like  sum.  The  payment  of  $50.00  constitutes  a  Life  Member. 
Terms  of  subscription  for  the  Record,  $2.00  per  annum  in  advance.  Subscriptions, 
which  are  solicited,  may  be  sent  to  Dr.  George  H.  Butler,  Treasurer,  64  Madison 
Avenue,  New  York.  Meetings  are  held  on  the  second  Friday  evening  of  each  month 
(excepting  July,  August,  and  September)  at  the  Society's  Hall,  64  Madison  Avenue,  when 
papers  are  read  and  addresses  delivered  on  subjects  for  the  most  part,  but  not  exclusively, 
relating  to  the  State  of  New  York.  Meetings  are  also  held  on  the  fourth  Friday  evening 
of  each  month,  of  a  business  and  conversational  character. 


OFFICERS  OF  THE  SOCIETY  FOR  THE  YEAR  1886.      ' 

President^ 
Gen.  JAS.  GRANT  WILSON. 
First  Vice-President,  •  Second  Vice-President, 

Dr.  ELLSWORTH  ELIOT.  Dr.  HENRY   R.  STILES. 

CorresJ>onding-  Secretary,  Recording  Secretary, 

.  Mr.  RUFUS   KING.  Mr.  OLIVER  E.  COLES. 

Librarian,  Treasurer. 

Mr.  SAMUEL   BURHANS,  Jr.  Dr.  GEORGE   H.  BUTLER. 

Registrar  of  Pedigrees, 
Mh.  THOMAS     G.  EVANS. 
Executive  Committee, 
Dr.  ELLSWORTH    ELIOT,  Mr.  GERRIT   H.  VAN  WAGENEN, 

Mr.  THOMAS   G.  EVANS,  Mr.  FREDERICK   D.  THOMPSON. 

Committee- on  Biographical  Bibliografhy, 

Mr.  CHARLES  B.  MOORE,  Mr.  THOMAS   H.  EDSALL. 

Building  Fund  Committee, 

Mr.  CORNELIUS  VANDERBILT,  Hon.  THEODORE  ROOSEVELT, 

Hon.  WM.  W.\LD0RF   ASTOR,  Mr.  EDMUND  A.  HURRY, 

Mr.  AMORY   S.  CARHART,  Mr.  JOHN   V.  L.  PRUYN. 

Trustees, 
Term  Exiikep,  1S87.  Term  Expires,  1888.  Term  Expire.s  1889. 

Mr.  JOHN   J.   LATTING,  Mr.  EDWARD    F.  DeLANCEV,  Mr.  RUFUS   KING, 

Mr.  CHARLES   B.  MOORE,       Dr.  SAMUEL  S.  PURPLE,  Mr.  H.  T.  DROWNE, 

Mr.  THOMAS  H.  EDSALL,        Gen.  JAS.  GRANT  WILSON,  Dr.  HENRY   R.  STILES. 


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Genealogy  and  Biography. 


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ISSUED       OUARTERLY 


October,     1886, 


PUBLISHED   BY   THE   SOCIETY, 

MOTT    Memorial    Hall,    No.    64    Madison    Avenue, 

New  York   City. 


The  New  York  Genealogical  and  Biographical  Record. 


Publication    Cotmnittee . 


Gen.  JAS.  GRANT  WILSON,  Ex-officio.         Dr.   HENRY    R.    STILES. 
Dr.   SAMUEL   S.  PURPLE.  Mr.  CHARLES   B.   MOORE. 


OCTOBER,    1886.— CONTENTS. 

PAGE 

John    Delafield,   the    Englishman.      By    Rev.  William    Hall,   New 
York  City 245 

The   De  Witt   Family,  of   Ulster  County,  New  York.     By  Thomas 


G.  Evans, 


251 


3.  Brookhaven  (L.  I.)  Epitaphs.     By  William  Kelby 259 

4.  Early  Settlers  of  Ulster  County — Abraham  and  Jean  Hasbrouck. 

By  Gerrit  H.  Van  Wagenen, 261 

5.  Records    of    the   Reformed   Dutch   Church    in    the  City   of    New 

York  (Continued) 268 

6.  Records  of   the  First  and  Second  Presbyterian  Churches  in   the 

City  of  New  York  (Continued) 277 

7.  Notes    and    Queries.— Culloden— Weeks — Thompson,    Cannone— Southold, 

L.  I. — Connecticut  Light  Horse — Riley,  Egg  Harbor — Some  Curious  Epitaphs 
— Lawrence — Notes  on  the  Lounsbury  Family,  by  William  S.  Pelletreau — 
Young,  Rogers,  280 

8.  Book    Notices.— The    Bartow   Family    in    England,  by   the    Rev.    Evelyn   P. 

Bartow,  A.M.,  280 — Rachel  DuMont,  by  Mary  Westbrook  [Van  Deusen],  280 
— Genealogical  History  and  Biographical  Sketches  of  the  Descendants  of  John 
Lee,  of  Agawam  (Ipswich),  Mass.,  281— Appletons'  Cyclopnsdia  of  American 
Biography, ....    281 

9.  Books  Donated  to  the  Society, 282 


•     NOTICE. 

While  the  Publication  Committee  aim  to  admit  into  the 
Record  such  Genealogical,  Biographical,  and  Historical 
matter,  only,  as  may  be  relied  on  for  accuracy  and  authen- 
ticity, it  is  to  be  understood  that  neither  the  Society  or 
Committee  are  responsible  for  misstatements  of  facts  (if 
any),  or  for  the  opinions  or  observations  contained  or 
expressed  in  articles  under  the  names,  or  initials,  of 
contributors. 

All  communications  intended  for  the  Record  should  be 
addressed  to  "The  Publication  Committee  of  the  Record," 
at  the  rooms  of  the  N.  Y.  Genealogical  and  Biographical 
Society,  No.  64  Madison  Avenue,  New  York. 

The  Record  will  be  found  on  sale  at  the  rooms  of  the 
Society  which  are  open  on  Tuesday  and  Friday  afternoons :  at 
Brentano  Brothers,  5  Union  Square,  W.;  and  at  Nash  and  Pierce's, 
80  Nassau  Street,  New  York.  The  Society  has  a  few  complete 
sets  on  sale.  Price  for  the  16  vols.,  well  bound  in  cloth,  $36.50. 
Subscription  payable  in  advance,  Two  Dollars  per  annum  ;  Single 
Numbers    Sixty    Cents    each. 

Payments  for  subscriptions,  and  annual  dues  of  Members  of  the 
Society,  should  be  sent  to  Dr.  George  H,  Butler,  Treasurer, 
No.  64  Madison  Avenue,  New  York  City. 


THE  NEW-ENGLAND  HISTORICAL  AND  GENEALOGICAL  REGISTER 

Contains  a  variety  of  valuable  and  interesting  matter  concerning  the  History, 
Antiquities,  Genealogy  and  Biography  of  America.  It  was  commenced  in  1847 
and  IS  the  oldest  historical  periodical  now  published  in  this  country.  It  is  issued 
quarterly  (each  number  containing  at  least  96  octavo  pages,  with  a  portrait  on 
steel)  by  the  New-England  Historic  Genealogical  Society,  18  Somerset  Street, 
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THE    NEW    YORK 
Genealogical  and  Biographical  Society. 


This  Society,  which  was  organized  and  incovpoi'ated  seventeen  years  ago,  lias  for  its 
chief  objects  : 

First — To  collect  and  print,  in  an  enduring  form,  the  scattered  records  of  the  early 
inhabitants  of  the  Colony  of  New  Netherland  and  the  Province  and  State  of  New  York, 
and  to  preserve  the  pedigrees  of  their  families,  also,  as  far  as  practicable,  those  of  other 
families.  This  the  Society  is  successfully  accomplishing,  through  the  medium  of  a  peri- 
odical known  as  the  "New  York  Genealogical  and  Biographical  Record,  devoted 
to  the  interests  of  American  Genealogy  and  Biography,"  edited  by  competent  members  of 
the  Society,  and  now  in  the  seventeenth  year  of  its  publication.  The  sixteen  bound 
volumes  of  the  Record  contain  many  of  the  ancient  records  of  the  Dutch  and  other 
New  York  Churches,  which  are  invaluable  to  those  interested  in  their  family  history. 

Second — To  add  to  its  large  and  valuable^library,  which  already  contains  many  works 
that  are  rare  and  difficult  to  obtain — American  biography,  family  genealogies,  town, 
county,  and  other  local  histories  ;  and  various  volumes  relating  to  the  above  and  kindred 
subjects. 

Third — With  a  view  to  increase  the  usefulness  of  the  Society,  and  for  the  purpose 
of  enabling  it  to  add  to  its  fund  for  the  erection  of  a  fire-proof  building  to  contain  the 
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(excepting  July,  August,  and  September)  at  the  Society's  Hall,  64  Madison  Avenue,  when 
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relating  to  the  State  of  New  York.  Meetings  are  also  held  on  the  fourth  Friday  evening 
of  each  month,  of  a  businessand  conversational  character. 


OFFICERS  OF  THE  SOCIETY  FOR  THE  YEAR  1886. 

President  ^ 
Gen.  JAS.  GRANT  WILSON. 
First  Vice-President,  Second  Vice-President^ 

Dr.  ELLSWORTH  ELIOT.  Dr.  HENRY   R.  STILES. 

Corresponding-  Secretary,  Recording  Secretary, 

Mr.  RUFUS    king.  Mr.  THOMAS  G.  EVANS. 

Librarian,  Treasurer. 

Mk.  SAMUEL   BURHANS,  Jk.  Dr.  GEORGE   H.  BUTLER. 

Registrar  of  Pedigrees, 
Mr.^THOMAS     G.  EVANS. 
Execittive  Comtiiittee, 
Dr.  ELLSWORTH   ELIOT,  Mr.  GERRIT  H.  VAN  WAGENEN, 

Mr.  THOMAS    G.  EVANS,  Mr.  FREDERICK  D.  THOMPSON. 

Comviittee  on  Biographical  Bibliography, 

Mr.  CHARLES  B.  MOORE,         -  Mr.  THOMAS  H.  EDSALL. 

Building  Fund  Committee, 

Mr.  CORNELIUS   VANDERBILT,  '  Hon.  THEODORE   ROOSEVELT, 

Hon.  WM.  WALDORF   ASTOR,  Mr.  EDMUND   A.  HURRY, 

Mr.  AMORY   S.  CARHART,  Mr.  JOHN   V.  L.  PRUYN. 

Trustees, 
Term  Expires,  1S87.  Term  Expires,  1888.  Term  Expires,  1889. 

Mr.  JOHN   J.  LATTING,  Mr.  EDWARD    F.  DeLANCEY,  Mr.  RUFUS    KING, 

Mr.  CHARLES   B.  MOORE,       Dr.  SAMUEL  S.  PURPLE,  Mr.   H.  T.  DROWNE, 

Mr.  THOMAS  H.  EDSALL,        Gen.  JAS.  GRANT  WILSON,  Dr.  HENRY   R.  STILES.J 


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